Robert B Baumgartner | Northern Virginia Business Lawyer

Attorney Robert Baumgartner has formed hundreds, if not thousands, of new businesses. He has watched mom and pop businesses achieve family goals, and has seen small businesses with big dreams implement legal and business solutions to become major players in their industries.

He cites positive client interaction with business owners who are trying to achieve their goals as a strong motivator in his decision to focus his practice on business and commercial law. He regularly works with optimistic, upbeat, and aggressive entrepreneurs and business owners to create short and long-term business strategies and legal needs. He has the experience to provide the practical legal solutions to complicated business situations. Time and again he has found that the pure legal analysis and legal courses of action may not be the best solution for businesses and business owners. Rather, seeking win-win solutions, which involve a balancing of the legal positions against the monetary and non-monetary costs leads to alternative, non-litigation solutions.

Business owners usually want cost effective solutions, not legal positions that lead to polarization and the loss of business deals and transactions. A transaction should never fall through because of attorneys advocating positions that create adversity. Rather, a lawyer should always seek solutions that will allow transactions to be consummated and problems to be resolved.

When dealing with employees and employment situations, he has found that employers want solutions that will minimize or remove the threat of litigation. With the cost of defending major employment suits averaging over $125,000, most business have to find solutions to employment problems that protect the business interests while bringing closure to the problems.

Admitted to the Virginia bar in 1978 and to the District of Columbia bar in 1994, Mr. Baumgartner brings considerable experience to the practice of business and commercial law in Northern Virginia.

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Managing Partner	Carlson Baumgartner Murphy PLC		2009-Present
Owner	Robert B. Baumgartner & Assoc		1985 - 2009
Partner	Dixon and Smith		1978 - 1984

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
University of Richmond School of Law	J.D.	Law School	1978
Xavier University	M.S.		1975
Wittenberg University	B.A.		1973

State / Court	Date
District of Columbia	1994
Virginia	1978

• - Central Fairfax Chamber of Commerce, 1983 - 1987, President
  - Lord of Life Lutheran Church, 1993, President
  - Fairfax Bar Association 1978–present, member
  - West Virginia State Bar 1978–present, member
  - Virginia State Bar 1978–present, member
  - Bar Association of the District of Columbia 1992–present, member
  - United States District Court Eastern District of Virginia 1980–present, member
  - United States Bankruptcy Court Virginia 1980–present, member
  - United states court of appeals fourth Circuit 1990–present, member
  - U.S. Supreme Court 1990–present, member

• AV Rated        Martindale-Hubbell        2014
  AV Rated        Martindale-Hubbell        2013
  BV Rated        Martindale-Hubbell        2002-2012 (excluding 2004)
  

• Bankruptcy WDVA, 93 (BR 1984), secured recovery for client in a fraudulent conveyance case.

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