Eminent Domain Kevin DeTurris is an experienced first-chair trial attorney with years of experience in managing litigation matters from initial pleading through trial and appeal. He regularly litigates complex business disputes involving breach of contract, labor agreements, fraud, conspiracy and a host of other business torts. His experience spans several industries, including real estate, construction, banking, trusts and estates, and technology. Kevin has substantial experience in the area of real estate litigation, involving the use of property, construction disputes, mechanics liens, trespass and nuisance cases, and landlord-tenant matters. He has a particular focus on litigating property use and valuation cases. This experience includes representing condemnors and condemnees in eminent domain matters; municipalities and property owners in tax appeal matters; and banks in complex litigations related to their lending practices. Kevin has successfully represented clients in all of the local federal and state trial courts, the Supreme Court of Virginia, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, and the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Kevin also represents clients before local boards of zoning appeals, in arbitration and mediation.

Don Detweiler has more than two decades of experience advocating for clients nationwide in complex Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, including representing debtors, creditors’ committees, directors and officers, employees, litigants, and other parties-in-interest. He has served as counsel to numerous Chapter 11 debtors and creditors’ committees in several business segments, including health care, manufacturing, retail, telecommunications, ethanol, apparel, pharmaceuticals, insurance and finance, specialty products marketing and distribution, and printing. He has significant experience in debtor and committee representations across the country. His bankruptcy experience includes debtor, committee and creditor representations in the states of Texas, Washington, Utah, Georgia, Virginia, Illinois, Nebraska, Iowa, Louisiana, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware. In addition to his bankruptcy experience, Don has successfully litigated, tried (jury and non-jury), and defended several complex commercial litigation cases in the state and federal courts of Delaware.

Area of Practice: Construction and Government Contracts William DeVan began his legal career in 1993 as a general commercial litigator in Richmond, Virginia. Six months into his practice, he arbitrated his first case, involving a dispute over sitework on the Eastern Shore, and became hooked on all aspects of construction law. In 2001, he joined Thelen, LLP. Shortly thereafter, Chambers USA ranked Thelen's construction practice as the preminent construction practice in the country. He founded Constructionlex in 2011 with a vision to create a new kind of law firm-one that was focused on adding value by building legal solutions. William has extensive trial experience on cases ranging from collections work-including mechanic's liens, bond claims, and bankruptcy issues-to large international disputes over delays and disruptions. He incorporates lessons learned from these experiences into construction contracts drafted for clients that vary from locally-based equipment rental firms to Fortune 500 developers. He believes that the purpose of every construction contract is to anticipate the problems that may arise on a Project and to help his clients resolve those problems as efficiently as possible. William's practice includes all aspects of government contracting as well. He has worked on a bid protest for a Virginia prison, electrical claims on an Army base, and termination and cost claims on a hospital project at NIH. He has lectured extensively on construction related topics, including seminars on the 2007 revisions to the AIA form contracts, mandatory disclosure requirements under the FAR, how to win construction claims, and how to perfect mechanic's liens and bond claims. He is a former Governor of the Virginia State Bar Construction Section. Outside of his construction practice, he also has been honored by the National Fair Housing Association for his work in obtaining the largest jury verdict in Virginia History and the largest civil rights verdict in U.S. History.

Mr. Dewhirst 's specialty covers corporate involvement in industrial litigation matters, as well as cases related to alleged structural flaws in the design and development of residential and large commercial properties. Mr. Dewhirst's firm also represents home health care providers, mental health practitioners, doctors , dentists, hospitals and nursing homes. He also provides on-site liability, product liability, personal injury, cyber liability, toxic torture, and environmental law representation in civil litigation areas.