Mr. Belcher practices in the areas of estate and business planning, estate and trust administration, charitable planning, and fiduciary litigation.

He is President-Elect of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and was previously Chair of the American Bar Association's Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Section. He is a member of the Advisory Committee and a frequent speaker at the Heckerling Institute of Estate Planning sponsored by the University of Miami School of Law, ALI-ABA estate planning seminars, and numerous other seminars. He is a Trustee of the Southern Federal Tax Institute and a member of the advisory board of BNA Tax Management, Estate, Gifts and Trusts Magazine. In addition, he has been listed in Town & Country magazine as one of the top 45 estate planning lawyers in the United States.

Chambers & Partners recognized Mr. Belcher in its 2006 and 2007 editions of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, where he was cited as “phenomenal” and known by his peers as being “technically excellent with good judgment.” Chambers ranked McGuireWoods' Private Wealth Services Group as one of seven law firms ranked in the top band nationally for wealth management.

In 2007, Mr. Belcher was named a Virginia “Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics Magazine, and he has been named annually since 1987 in Woodard/White's "Best Lawyers in America."

He has testified before the Senate Finance Committee on estate tax reform and the House Ways & Means Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures on patenting of tax strategies. He has been quoted in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Time magazine, USA Today, Worth Magazine, Trusts and Estates Magazine, the American Bar Association Journal, Fidelity Investor's Weekly, Business Week, The Daily Tax Report, Bloomberg Magazine, and National Underwriter.