location icon  3201 Jermantown Road, Suite 600, Fairfax, VA 22030
location icon  201 Concourse Blvd., Suite 101, Glen Allen, VA 22059
location icon  25 Library Square, Salem, VA 24153

phone icon  Fairfax - 703-352-1900
Glen Allen - 804-346-5400
Roanoke Valley - 540-857-0600
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Serving Virginia and D.C. Community Associations From the Ground Up

Virginia and D.C. Community Association and Civil Litigation Firm


Community Association Law

Representing homeowners' associations, condominiums and cooperatives

Since 1990, the law firm of Chadwick, Washington, Moriarty, Elmore & Bunn P.C. has provided comprehensive legal support for community associations in Virginia and the District of Columbia. The firm strives to deliver wise and creative counsel in support of your board’s ultimate goal — to run an efficient community that properly serves its members. Chadwick Washington has primary offices in Fairfax and Richmond, with a satellite office in Roanoke and additional resources in Washington, D.C. and Fredericksburg.

Their depth of experience helps your board manage the community’s legal issues and pursue initiatives with confidence.

The attorneys at Chadwick Washington have a broad perspective on the law, handling all aspects of community association affairs. Their depth of experience helps your board manage its community and pursue initiatives with confidence. The firm provides effective counseling on routine operational matters such as covenant enforcement and collections (including online access to account status information via CW AccountView) as well as extraordinary challenges that require community association litigation or other means of resolution. This level of support allows your board to focus on policy and long-range planning for your community.

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General civil litigation

Chadwick Washington also has a general civil litigation practice, with attorneys experienced in insurance defense and coverage work, as well as other specialties ranging from traumatic brain injury, automobile liability, construction defects and premises liability. The firm’s litigators have tried jury trials throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia and bring substantial experience to bear on any civil litigation matter. The firm’s litigation department also accepts plaintiff personal injury claims on a case-by-case basis.

Contact Chadwick Washington online or call 703.352.1900.

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Recent News

  • Tiago Bezerra and Dan Blom co-presented When Life Gives You Lemons: Managing Difficult Situations in Community Association with Bryant Phillips, Executive Vice President from Associa-CMC, at the 2024 Washington Metro Chapter Community Associations Institute Annual Conference & Expo on March 2, 2024. 
  • On June 18, 2024, Dan Blom and Troy Krepich at CMC and SCS spoke on legislative changes in the common association management industry to participants at a Legal Webinar entitled “Legislative Updates Affecting the Community Association Management Industry.” 
  • On September 19, 2024, Michael Sottolano provided training on the Fair Housing laws to community association managers and directors at the CVC-CAI Knowledge Day. 
  • Michael Sottolano and Olga Tseliak will be speaking in November 2024, at a webinar to participants on legislative changes and use of technology affecting the common interest community associations in the Hampton Roads area. 
  • Brendan Bunn, together with other members of the College of Community Association Lawyers (CCAL), co-authored an amicus brief that was filed with the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to support a challenge to the CTA filed by a business trade association in Alabama. A copy of the brief can be found here.

Special Announcements

See the latest Special Assessment featuring the 2024 Virginia Legislative Update.                  

See the latest Litigation Report.

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Our Attorneys

  • BRADLEY
    Bradley M. Barna
    Senior Associate

    Bradley M. Barna is a senior associate attorney in the firm’s Fairfax office, having joined the firm in January 2016.

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  • Tiago D. Bezerra
    Tiago D. Bezerra
    Senior Associate

    Tiago D. Bezerra joined the firm in 2022 as an attorney in the firm’s Fairfax office having worked as a community association attorney since 2014.

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  • DANIEL
    Daniel D. Blom
    Senior Associate

    Dan Blom is a senior associate attorney in the firm’s Fairfax office. His practice is devoted to the representation of community associations throughout Virginia and the District of Columbia.

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  • BRENDAN
    Brendan P. Bunn
    Community Association Attorney & Shareholder

    Brendan P. Bunn is a shareholder in the firm’s Fairfax office and has been practicing community association law since 1993. 

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  • Josh Cergas
    Josh Cergas
    Associate

    Josh Cergas joined Chadwick Washington’s Fairfax office as an associate attorney in July 2024. 

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  • KENNETH
    Kenneth E. Chadwick (Emeritus)
    (Retired) ​Community Association Attorney & Shareholder

    Kenneth E. Chadwick was a shareholder and founding member of the firm, domiciled in the firm’s Fairfax office and oftentimes in the Richmond office.

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  • Edward J. Cush
    Edward J. Cush III
    Associate

    Edward J. Cush III is an associate attorney in the firm’s Richmond (Glen Allen) office, having joined in August 2024. 

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  • LINDSEY
    Lindsey Davis
    Associate

    Lindsey I. Davis is an associate attorney in the firm’s Fairfax office, having joined the firm in March 2020.

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  • BRUCE
    Bruce H. Easmunt
    Shareholder

    Bruce H. Easmunt is a shareholder in the firm’s Fairfax office. His practice is entirely devoted to community association representation.

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  • ANDREW
    Andrew G. Elmore
    Community Association Attorney & Shareholder

    Andrew G. Elmore is a shareholder in the firm’s Richmond (Glen Allen) office and joined the firm in 1991.

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  • Michael C. Gartner
    Michael C. Gartner
    Shareholder

    Michael C. Gartner is a shareholder in the firm’s Fairfax Office. 

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  • JANEEN
    Janeen B. Koch
    Of Counsel

    Janeen, a member of the Virginia Bar since 1994, has primarily focused on insurance defense throughout her career.

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  • Anna Mancino
    Anna Mancino
    Associate Attorney

    Anna Mancino joined the firm’s Fairfax office in September 2023, right off the heels of her Fairfax County Circuit Court clerkship.

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  • Steve Moriarty
    Stephen H. Moriarty II
    Community Association Attorney & Shareholder

    Steve Moriarty is a shareholder in the firm’s Fairfax and Roanoke Valley offices.

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  • MELISSA
    Melissa T. Payne
    Associate

    Melissa works in Chadwick Washington’s Fairfax office as an associate attorney, having joined the firm in April 2023.

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  • SARA
    Sara J. Ross
    Community Association Attorney & Shareholder

    Sara J. Ross is a shareholder in the firm’s Fairfax office. Since 2003, her practice has been devoted to community association law in Virginia.

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  • Michael A. Sottolano
    Michael A. Sottolano
    Shareholder

    Michael A. Sottolano is a shareholder in the firm’s Richmond (Glen Allen) office.

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  • DANIEL
    Daniel B. Streich (Emeritus)
    Community Association Attorney & Principal

    Daniel B. Streich was an attorney in the firm’s Fairfax office and joined the firm in 1999 upon his retirement from a 20-year career in the U.S. Marine Corps.

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  • OLGA
    Olga S. Tseliak
    Senior Associate

    Olga S. Tseliak is a senior associate attorney in the firm’s Fairfax office. 

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  • ALLEN
    Allen B. Warren
    Community Association Attorney & Shareholder

    Allen B. Warren is a shareholder in the firm’s Fairfax Office and joined the firm in 2000.

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  • WIL
    Wil Washington
    Community Association Attorney & Shareholder

    Wil Washington is a shareholder in the firm’s Fairfax office and co-founded the firm in 1990. 

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  • JERRY
    Jerry M. Wright, Jr.
    Shareholder

    Jerry M. Wright, Jr. is a principal in the firm’s Richmond (Glen Allen) office and joined the firm in 2003.

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Fairfax Office Location

Address

3201 Jermantown Road,
Fairfax, VA 22030

Phone

703-352-1900

Glen Allen Office Location

Address

201 Concourse Blvd,
Glen Allen, VA 23059

Phone

804-346-5400

Roanoke Valley Location

Address

25 Library Square,
Salem, VA 24153

Phone

540-857-0600