About Jim Lang - Trusted Virginia Waterfront, Maritime & Environmental Lawer

Jim Lang capped his 35+ years of legal practice by assembling, training and leading a team of attorneys at Pender & Coward, P.C.  They know how to protect Virginians who live, work and play on the water. Over the course of his long career, Jim handled all aspects of waterfront (riparian property) law, maritime & admiralty law, and environmental law. He represented clients before the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, the US Army Corps of Engineers, the US EPA, the Virginia DEQ, Local Wetlands Boards, Local Planning Commissions, City Councils, the State Courts in Virginia, and the Federal Courts in Virginia. Jim generally does not handle the day-to-day legal work sought by people who visit this website.  He usually refers incoming prospective clients to the highly qualified waterfront & riparian property rights attorneys at Pender & Coward, P.C., for which Jim receives a referral fee. 

Examples include:

• Assisted numerous waterfront property owners at hearings before the VMRC resulting in a permit denial for an 11 acre industrial-sized floating oyster aquaculture farm and, in another case, resulting in another applicant withdrawing an application for a 1.5 acre floating oyster aquaculture farm.
• Assisting a client in proceedings at the VMRC to protect his property rights at a privately owned island in the Potomac River used for duck hunting.
• Appeared before the VMRC in a successful effort to block installation of a large mooring facility that would have devalued our client's riparian property rights.
• Helped a waterfront residential property owner gain approval from the VMRC to build a 254’ pier in the face of determined opposition from immediate neighbors.

Jim is an attorney who has the skills and experience you need in waterfront (riparian property) law, maritime & admiralty law, and environmental law. He infuses in his practice the same commitment to delivering value, accomplishment of mission and service to others that he learned during 25 years in the U.S. Navy (starting as an E-1 and ending as an O-5). 

Jim is a many-times-over published author and speaker. He is a board member of his civic league and, together with his wife Susan, mentors four at-risk youth through a social services program.