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411 East Franklin Street
Suite 600
Richmond, Virginia 23219-2200
(804) 697-2078
(804) 697-2178 (fax)
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Current Employment Position(s):

Shareholder & Director

Areas of Practice:

  • Land use and real estate related litigation
Bar Admissions:

  • Virginia, 1999
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia, 2002
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 2002
Classes/Seminars Taught:

  • Negotiating Complex Real Estate Transactions in Virginia: Land Use Considerations, Lorman Education Services, 2005

  • Practical Guide to Zoning and Land Use Law, National Business Institute, 2006

Michael James Rothermel

Michael J. Rothermel was admitted to practice in Virginia in 1999. He served as a judicial clerk to the Circuit Court in Henrico County, Virginia from 1999-2000 and joined Spotts Fain Chappell & Anderson following his clerkship. He focuses his practice in the areas of commercial and business law and litigation and land use and zoning.

Mr. Rothermel earned a B.A., summa cum laude, in Political Science and Philosophy from Randolph-Macon College in 1996. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the T. C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond in 1999, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the McNeill Law Society.

Mr. Rothermel is a member of the Richmond and Henrico County Bar Associations. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Henrico County Bar Association.

Education:
  • University of Richmond, The T.C. Williams School of Law, Richmond, Virginia, 1999
    J.D.
    Honors: Magna Cum Laude

  • Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, 1996
    B.A.
    Honors: Summa Cum Laude
    Major:  Political Science
    Major:  Philosophy

Fraternities/Sororities:
  • Kappa Sigma
Professional Associations and Memberships:
  • Virginia State Bar
  • Richmond Bar Association
  • Henrico County Bar Association, 2006 - Present
    Member, Board of Directors
Past Employment Positions:
  • 14th Judicial Circuit of Virginia (Circuit Court of Henrico), Judicial Clerk, 1999 - 2000

Birth Information:

July 9, 1973, Reading, Pennsylvania