Mr. Handford has over fourteen years of experience in litigation and trial practice, as a claims and litigation staff attorney at Coast Guard Headquarters, a prosecutor and defense counsel for special and general courts martial, a federal prosecutor for felony criminal charges, and as a civil trial lawyer for maritime and casualty litigation in both federal and state courts. Mr. Handford now concentrates his trial practice in the areas of personal injury, business disputes and will contests. Corporate shareholder and LLC member struggles, entity dissolutions, contract disputes, and commercial collections are among the specific matters he has handled successfully for business clients. On the estate side, Mr. Handford has assisted clients in recovering for executor breaches and in obtaining court-ordered resolution of asset distribution problems on behalf of executors and administrators. Mr. Handford is equally comfortable before judge or jury and in situations ranging from the most basic contract dispute in local general district court to complex commercial litigation in the "rocket docket" of the federal courts of the Eastern District of Virginia.
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