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411 East Franklin Street
Suite 600
Richmond, Virginia 23219-2200
(804) 697-2080
(804) 697-2180 (fax)
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Current Employment Position(s):

Shareholder and President

Areas of Practice:

  • Real Estate Law
  • Environmental Law
  • Legislative Practice
  • Government Relations & Lobbying
  • Business Organizations
Bar Admissions:

  • Virginia, 1982
Honors and Awards:

  • Virginia Business Legal Elite

  • Listed in Virginia Super Lawyers

  • AV Rating

  • VBA Pro Bono Servant

  • VBA Community Servant

Meade A. Spotts

Meade A. Spotts is President of Spotts Fain PC, a Virginia law firm focused on advising, counseling and representing businesses in transactional and litigation matters since 1988.

Meade earned his B.A. in History, with distinction, from the Virginia Military Institute in 1979. He earned his J.D. from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary in 1982. First commissioned in 1979, he is a graduate of the U. S. Army Command and General Staff Course and is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserve.

Meade's practice emphasizes real estate and environmental issues, legislative representation and lobbying, general corporate and business law. He represents his clients' interests before the Virginia General Assembly, local and state boards, planning commissions and agencies. He is a member of the Richmond Bar Association and the Virginia State Bar and is also a member of the Real Estate and Environmental Law Sections of these organizations. He is a member of the Board of Directors of C&F Bank - Richmond, is a Commissioner of the Port of Richmond Authority, is current Director and past Chairman of the Wildlife Foundation of Virginia and has recently been appointed to the Board of the Veterans Services Foundation.  Meade has been named in the business law, real estate and lobbying and regulatory categories of the Legal Elite list published annually by Virginia Business Magazine.

His off-duty time likewise covers much of the state. Meade lives on the James River in Richmond with his wife and four children, and spends free time either hunting with friends on his farm in Southwest Virginia or enjoying the Chesapeake Bay with family in Deltaville. He enjoys hunting, military history, farming and traveling.

Education:
  • The College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1982
    J.D.

  • Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia, 1979
    B.A.
    Honors: With Distinction
    Major:  History

Professional Associations and Memberships:
  • Virginia Bar Association, Environmental Law Section
    Member
  • Virginia Bar Association, Real Estate Section
    Member
  • Bar Association of the City of Richmond, Environmental Law Section
    Member
  • Bar Association of the City of Richmond, Real Estate Section
    Member
  • Wildlife Foundation of Virginia
    Chairman, 2005-07; Director, 2007-
  • United States Army Reserve
    Retired Lieutenant Colonel
  • Port of Richmond Authority
    Commissioner
  • Veterans Services Foundation, 2008 - Present
    Board of Trustees
Birth Information:

1957, Richmond, Virginia

January 27, 2010 - We are proud to announce that Spotts Fain Managing Director, Hugh M. Fain, III has been elected Chair of the Board of Governors of the Virginia Bar Association

December, 2009 - Spotts Fain congratulates our shareholders named in the 2009 Legal Elite list published by Virginia Business magazine.  They are Meade Spotts, Legislative/Regulatory; Hugh Fain, Civil Litigation; Betsy Davis, Labor and Employment; and Dana McDaniel, Intellectual Property. 

December 1, 2009 - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination - article by Betsy Davis

October 29, 2009 - Betsy Davis spoke on Recent Changes in Employment Law at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys

October 27, 2009 - Spotts Fain presented, Commercial Landlords and Tenants: Planning for and Dealing with Bankruptcy, presenters were Jen West and John Anderson

October 26, 2009 - Comments on President Obama's proposal to increase lending limits on SBA loans, by Tom O'Brien

October 21, 2009 - GINA is Coming - Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act - article by Betsy Davis

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