Lawrence J. McClafferty

Lawrence J. McClafferty

President

Lawrence J. McClafferty is a principal with McCandlish Lillard, its President, and a member of its Executive Committee. He works out of the firm’s Fairfax and Loudoun offices. Lawrence is a trial and appellate lawyer who, in recent years, has devoted much of his practice to litigation involving business torts, community associations, and fiduciary litigation, which includes will contests, breach of fiduciary duty claims, and guardianship/conservatorship actions. He lectured on fiduciary litigation at the 2016 Virginia Bar Association winter meeting.

Lawrence was part of the litigation team that obtained the largest jury verdict in the Commonwealth of Virginia for 2016, as reported by Virginia Lawyers Weekly. He is AV-rated by Martindale Hubbell and has been honored by Virginia Business magazine as one of its “Legal Elite” since 2005.

He serves as Commissioner in Chancery for the Loudoun County Circuit Court. He is a past president of the Loudoun County Bar Association and a member of the bars of the United States Supreme Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as the Virginia State Bar, Virginia Bar Association, Fairfax Bar Association and the Loudoun County Bar Association.

Lawrence earned his B.A. degree from Boston College and his law degree from Washington and Lee University.

Honors +

AV^® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated attorney, the highest rating from Martindale-Hubbell^®.

Activities +

Lawrence has been a member of the Virginia State Bar since 1994, and is also a member of the Loudoun County Bar Association (President, 2007-2008), Fairfax Bar Association, the Virginia Bar Association, and the Community Association Institute.

Notable Cases +

Federal cases

Newman v. Advanced Tech. Innovation Corp., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 55984 (E.D. Va. 2012)
Find Where Holdings, Inc. v. Systems Environment Optimization, LLC, 626 F. 3d 752 (4^th Cir. 2010)
Phoenix Renovation Corporation v. Rodriguez, 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 29253 (4^th Cir. 2007)

Virginia Supreme Court

Reineck v. Lemen, 292 Va. 710 (2016)
Gowin v. Granite Depot, L.L.C., 272 Va. 246 (2006)
G & M Homes II, Inc. v. Pearson, 263 Va. 107 (2002)
Sully Station II Community Association, Inc. v. Dye, 259 Va. 282 (2000)

Virginia Court of Appeals

Brown v. Grundy, 2025 Va. App. LEXIS 317 (Va. Ct. App. 2025)
Parasidis v. Karageorge, 2015 Va. App. LEXIS 365 (Va. Ct. App. 2015)

Circuit Court

Beaver Creek Farm, LLC v. First Curacao Int’l Bank, N.V., 113 Va. 606 (Loudoun Cir. 2024)
Gianforte v. Verizon Va., Inc., 69 Va. Cir. 361 (Fairfax Cir. 2005)