Virginia Environmental Law & Waterfront Property Rights Resources

Waterfront Property Law Team attorney Jim Lang, other Pender & Coward attorneys, employees and family join with Lynnhaven River Now to remove hundreds of pounds of trash from Little Neck creek in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Read the full article.

Pender & Coward waterfront law attorney Bryan Peeples discusses Virginia tidal wetlands regulations, violations, penalties and steps to avoid being charged with a tidal wetlands violation in his article Read the full article.

Bryan Peeples gives a summary of the March 2019 Virginia Marine Resources Commission Meeting. Read the full article.

Waterfront Property Law Team attorneys Tom Berkley, Jeff Wilson, other Pender & Coward employees and family join with Elizabeth River Project to plant native shrubs at Paradise Creek Nature Park in Portsmouth, Virginia. Read the full article.

Our Pender & Coward colleagues, Dave Arnold and Ross Greene, explain how “spite leases” are being used to block dredging projects in Virginia Beach. Their article describes a new law enacted in 2019 to solve the problem. Read the full article.

Jeff Wilson gives a summary of the February 2019 Virginia Marine Resources Commission Meeting. Read the full article.

An audience of 170 attorneys attended Jim’s Riparian Property Rights class. Click the following link to view Jim’s PowerPoint presentation Read the full article.

Jim Lang gives a summary of the January 2019 Virginia Marine Resources Commission Meeting. Read the full article.

Tom Berkley explains how Virginia and several Mid-Atlantic States, as well as the District of Columbia, enacted laws that streamline a waterfront riparian property owner’s ability to remove and dispose of derelict vessels dumped at the shoreline. Read the full article.