Robert concentrates on real property law, with special emphasis on the planning and development of condominiums, mixed-use projects and planned unit developments, preparing community association documents for developers and builders. His practice includes risk management for developers/builders, ensuring compliance with secondary mortgage market requirements (FNMA, FHLMC, VA, FHA, VHDA), negotiation of warranty and construction defect claims, and general representation of community associations. More recently, Robert has worked on a number of commercial, hotel and continuing care retirement condominiums as well as litigating association-related issues in state and federal court. His clients include condominium and homeowners associations; developers of new and conversion residential, office and mixed-use condominium and PUD projects; lenders providing construction and permanent financing and assessment-based loans for condominiums and planned communities; and management companies and insurance companies working with community associations.
Credentials
Awards & Recognition
- Selected through peer review for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© for Community Association Law, 2019-2025. He also received the Best Lawyers™ "Lawyer of the Year" award in Washington, D.C., for Community Association Law in 2022, and 2024
- Recipient of the Community Associations Institute's Author of the Year award in 2020.
- Recognized by the College of Community Association Lawyers as the recipient of the 2020 Don Buck Lifetime Award for sustained active and positive presence in the common interest community industry, drafting, lecturing and scholarly contributions to the common interest development community along with long term commitment to the local community.
- Ranked in Chambers USA for Virginia Northern Real Estate, 2008-2010, 2014, 2016-2024
- Selected to the Washington, D.C., and Virginia Super Lawyers lists for Real Estate, 2006-2019
- Named a "Super Lawyer" by Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition for his real estate practice (2009 - 2016)
- Selected by Virginia Business Magazine as one of Virginia's "Legal Elite: Real Estate/Land Use" attorneys (2010)
- Listed in Marquis' Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the Southeast and Who's Who in American Law for several years
- Received Community Associations Institute’s Distinguished Service Award in 1998.
Teaching Experience
- Guest Lecturer:
- American University School of Law
- George Washington University Law School
- Urban Land Institute
- Community Associations Institute
- College of Community Association Lawyers
- Engineers & Surveyors Institute
- National Association of Home Builders
- Virginia State Bar Virginia Association of Surveyors