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Lawyer Overview

Dan's practice focuses on IP, real estate and commercial litigation with an additional concentration in bankruptcy and creditor issues. Dan has represented a wide range of individuals and businesses in all manner of real estate litigation, as well as both debtors and creditors in bankruptcy Chapters 7, 11 and 13. These clients have included a number of physicians and business reorganizations. Dan's commercial litigation experience includes negotiating with large banks and corporations. Dan has worked on multi- jurisdictional patent infringment and complex commercial real estate disputes.

Dan grew up in Washington State in the early 1960s, graduating in 1981 with high honors from Pacific University where he was the Pacific Northwest Intercollegiate Conference champion in the 400m dash and a varsity football player. In 1983 Dan graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a MA in journalism. Dan worked in television for a number of years, eventually becoming an anchor man and television new director for KIMO-TV in Alaska (an ABC affiliate).

Dan attended Washington and Lee University School of Law where he was judged the school's Best Trial Advocate. He then went work for the firm of Gilmer, Sadler, Ingram, Sutherland & Hutton until joining a firm in northern Virginia where he eventually became a partner with Tom Dunlap. In 2001 he joined Tom Dunlap to form Dunlap & Grubb.

Dan is a graduate of Army OCS and has spent five years as an infantry scout. He currently holds the rank of captain and has recently returned from a one year deployment with the US Special Forces as an infantry commander in Afghanistan where he learned to speak Dari and was awarded a bronze star. Dan enjoys news, politics and studying foreign language and culture.

Areas of Practice

• IP Litigation (Patent, Trademark and Copyright)
• Commercial & Real Estate Litigation
• Bankruptcy & Creditor Litigation

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law, Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks, Litigation & Appeals, Real Estate Law

Bar Admissions

• Virginia
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia
• U.S. District Court Western District of Virginia
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court Eastern District of Virginia
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court Western District of Virginia
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Federal Bar Association
• Loudoun County Bar Association
• American Bar Association, Bankruptcy

Education

• Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia
  J.D.
• University of Missouri
  M.A.
• Pacific University
  B.A.

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Address

199 Liberty Street, SW
Leesburg, VA 20175-2715

Office Hours

8 am - 6 pm EST

Phones

(703) 777-7319 (Ext. 8357)

Faxes

(703) 777-3656

Emails

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Websites

http://www.dglegal.com