Laurence D. Bragg
Attorney & Counsellor at LawMember/Partner Goss & Fentress
Born: Virginia Beach, VA July 25, 1963
Statement of Practice: Virginia Criminal & Traffic Trial & Appellate Practice; Personal Injury & Civil Litigation; and Social Security Disability claims
MEMBERSHIP:
- State of Virginia, 1989
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Virginia Beach Bar Association
- Norfolk & Portsmouth Bar Association
EDUCATION:
- CUMBERLAND SCHOOL OF LAW, Samford University
- Birmingham, Alabama 35229
- Date of Graduation: May 1989
- Earned third year law student certificate to practice law in Virginia: January 1988
Honors and activities:
- Awarded 1989 Most Outstanding Trial Advocacy Board Member
- Dean’s List
- Trial Advocacy Board: Member, Acting Ruling Judge and Scoring Judge
- Virginia Student Bar Association: Member
- Cumberland International Law Society: Member
Undergraduate:
- HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE
- Hampden-Sydney, Virginia 23943
- Date of Graduation: May 1985
- Major: Political Science
Honors and Activities:
- Published author,The Hampden-Sydney Literary Review, 1984,1985
- Varsity Wrestling: 1985 Most Valuable Team Member
- Varsity Golf
- Theta Chi Fraternity: Member
EXPERIENCE:
TRIAL LAWYER –PRIVATE PRACTICE SINCE OCTOBER 1998
- Criminal and Traffic Defense
- Contracts Litigation
- Construction Cases
- Personal Injury
- Restoration of Driving Privileges
- Expungements
- Appeals
ASSISTANT COMMONWEALTH’S ATTORNEY FOR THE CITY OF NORFOLK - August 1990 to October 1998
- Criminal and Traffic Prosecution
- Search and Seizure Motions
- Forfeiture Proceedings
- Habitual Offender Petitions
- Concealed Weapon Permits
- Appeals
TRAINING:
- National College of District Attorneys
- Career Prosecutor Course; Houston, Texas
- Graduate: June 1995
- Commonwealth of Virginia’s
- Investigation and Prosecution of Drug Cases Training Course; William and Mary College
- Williamsburg, Virginia
- Graduate: May 1997
- FEDERAL COURT CLERKSHIP
- Judge Richard B. Kellam
- Walter E. Hoffman U.S. Courthouse, Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk, Virginia
- August 1989 to August 1990
BIOGRAPHY:
- Married, father of three
- Trial Lawyer – 19 years experience
- Life long resident of Virginia Beach
- Member and Usher, First Presbyterian Church of Virginia Beach
- Member, Hampden-Sydney College Alumni Association of Tidewater, Virginia
- Little league sports coach and sponsor
- Five years of study of the German language
- Enjoy golf, softball, racquetball and travel
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