Christopher Davis
Managing Member
Chris is a business lawyer and commercial litigator with experience helping businesses in both private practices and as Corporate Counsel to a large franchisor with over 4,000 franchisees internationally. He has handled commercial disputes for clients in state and federal courts around the country in matters ranging from basic contract disputes to multi-million dollar “bet the company” lawsuits. Prior to becoming a business attorney, he was the C.I.O. for an Internet Service Provider in Buffalo, NY.
Chris teaches as an adjunct professor at Regent University and currently sits on the board of IPPD (Institute for Personal and Professional Development) and the Radiance Foundation. Chris is a graduate of the 2019 class of LEAD Hampton Roads. He was named a 2016-2020 ‘Rising Star’ by Super Lawyers magazine, a distinction received by only 2.5% of attorneys in Virginia. Chris was named a 2019 Legal Elite by Virginia Business Magazine.
- Supreme Court of Virginia
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Supreme Court of the United States
- J.D. and MBA, Regent University School of Law and School of Business, Virginia Beach, VA
- Graduate work in international politics, Hertford College, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.
- Undergraduate degree, Elim Bible Institute, Rochester, NY.
- Commercial Litigation
- Tort & Contract Litigation
- Franchise Litigation
- Real Estate Litigation
- Business Law
- Technology Law
- Intellectual Property
- In August 2019, Chris settled a multi-million dollar dispute with terms favorable to Davis Law, PLC’s client. Our client, a government contractor, had no written contract to support his position as plaintiff, and so we had to rely upon expert testimony to support our position as to industry norms. While the settlement is confidential, we are pleased with the six-figure settlement we obtained for our client.
- In September 2018, Chris reversed the tides in a seven-figure lawsuit against a Virginia Beach restaurant owner, defeated the plaintiff’s claims, and obtained a jury verdict of $255,500 for the defendant as counter-claimant. The Virginia Pilot reported the story here.
- In March 2018, Chris obtained a $650k jury verdict on contract and fraud claims for a local business owner in Portsmouth. Virginia Lawyers Weekly reported the story on June 11, 2018, here.
- In August 2017, Chris obtained a $3.8M jury verdict on a tortious interference claim for a Chesapeake government contractor. Virginia Lawyers Weekly reported the story on August 28, 2017, here, and later reported it as the largest jury verdict in the Commonwealth of Virginia in 2017.