Jeffrey Hamilton Geiger - Principal
 

Jeff Geiger serves as Firm Counsel and Co-Chair of the Business and Professional Liability Litigation Team and on the Intellectual Property Law Team, concentrating his practice on issues concerning:
  • Complex Civil Litigation
  • Intellectual Property/Media Law
  • Legal Malpractice Defense
  • Eminent Domain/Real Property Litigation

An adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Richmond, Jeff teaches courses in alternative dispute resolution, cyberlaw, identity theft and intellectual property law.  In the course of his practice, Jeff speaks, writes, and counsels clients on legal ethics, protecting intellectual property rights, Internet law, and lawyers' professional liability.  Virginia Business Magazine has listed Jeff as being among the Virginia Business Legal Elite, as selected by his peers, for the last five years.  Jeff has successfully managed many complex litigation matters and has served as lead counsel and local counsel in numerous trials in state and federal courts and administrative agencies throughout Virginia.

Articles and In the News

  • Client Case Study: This Real Estate Lease Can't Force A Sale.
  • That's not such a big deal, said Jeffrey Geiger,an adjunct assistant law professor at the University of Richmond. Otherwise there'd be a problem with...July 26, 2007 issue of Roanoke Times/roanoke.com
  • Jeff Geiger, a local litigation attorney who teaches legal ethics at the University of Richmond, says the ethical dilemma facing Herring isn’t “black and white...July 25, 2007 issue of Style Magazine.
  • Client Sumpter Priddy and his Geiger-led successful legal dispute with Virginia Comonwealth University was covered in the May 30, 2007 issue of Style Weekly.
  • “Professional Liability Insurance” INSURANCE LAW IN VIRGINIA (co-author Chapter 14) (Virginia CLE January 2002) (prepared 2003-2008 supplements)).
  • Quarterly Columnist, Legal Ethics Corner, DOCKET CALL NEWSLETTER (Virginia State Bar 1998 to present).
  • “Cyberpiracy and Emerging Trends Under the 1999Anticybersquatting
    Consumer Protection Act,” 14 Journal of Civil Litigation 23 (2002)
  • "Domain Name Disputes and the 1999 Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act," 13 Journal of Civil Litigation 19 (2001)
  • “Client’s Unhappy Hindsights: When a Settlement Leads to a Malpractice Claim,” For the Defense 60 (Defense Research Institute, December 2000)
  • “Canary in a Coal Mine?: Federalism and the Failure of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990,” 20 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol’y Rev. 81 (1995) 

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Quick Facts
 
Education

B.A., College of William & Mary, 1992
(International Relations Theory/German)
J.D., College of William & Mary, 1996

Admissions

  • Virginia
  • U. S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia
  • U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
  • U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Virginia

Law Clerk

The Honorable Jere M. H. Willis, Jr., Court of Appeals of Virginia, 1996-1998

Pro Bono Activities

  • The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc.
  • Virginia State Bar, Chair, Emergency Legal Services Committee, 2003 to 2007
  • Virginia State Bar, Standing Committee on Professionalism
  • Virginia State Bar, Editorial Board, Docket Call newsletter