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John R. Powell
 Practice areas...
Real Estate
John R. Powell, Partner, practices in the areas of domestic relations and real estate litigation.
Powell promises prospective clients a thorough and objective assessment of their legal situation.
“The attorney and client need to have a good working relationship based on trust,” says Powell. “If a person is looking for a lawyer who will play on their emotions and build up false expectations, they need to look somewhere else.”
Clients can trust Powell to focus achieving a fair solution to their problem. In a domestic dispute, for example, he will often recommend counseling to defuse the emotional dynamics of a situation so that the legal issues can be worked through with less strife and expense. After all, the law views marriage primarily as a financial partnership and divorce as the dissolution of that financial relationship.
At the same time, Powell is a tough-minded litigator who has tried hundreds of cases. “We are preparing to go to court from the moment a client walks into the office,” he says.
“We are also preparing to settle from the moment they walk in,” he adds, explaining the need to aggressively pursue parallel strategies for resolving the case. “A lot of times people will decide to settle on the morning of the trial.” Only by dedicating energy to both strategies can one be adequately prepared for whatever might happen.
Powell is happy to assist clients who are pursuing a no-fault divorce and want to do as much of the work themselves as possible.
Powell has spent his entire legal career representing clients primarily in Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties. He has practiced law since 1989 and is also an experienced businessman. He ranked in the top 10% of his class at George Mason University School of Law while simultaneously running his own business.
As a Commonwealth Attorney for Condemnation, one of Powell’s recent cases, Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner of Virginia v. Holly Tree Properties Inc., et al., was reported by the Virginia Circuit Court. The Court decided in favor of the Commonwealth on the issue of notice for a bona fide offer when the noticed party changed title during the process.
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