Lawyers / Professionals

 
M. Melissa Glassman       
Partner
1750 Tysons Boulevard
Suite 1800
Tysons Corner, Virginia 22102-4215
T: 703.712.5351
F: 703.712.5228
mglassman@mcguirewoods.com
 

Ms. Glassman is the firm's deputy managing partner of Business Development. Prior to this role, she was a member of the firm's eight-person Executive Committee and chairman of McGuireWoods' Complex Commercial Litigation Department. She was the first woman to serve as an office managing partner and founded the McGuireWoods' Women's Business Development Committee, now known as McGuireWoods Women's Leadership Forum, and served as its first chair. She has served as chair of the Nominating Committee for McGuireWoods' Board of Partners and served on the Firm's Associate Committee.

Ms. Glassman focuses her practice on litigating complex commercial cases including shareholder matters, lender/borrower relationships, energy, construction, commercial leasing, real estate, land use, zoning and all manner of business disputes. She has also litigated eminent domain cases in Virginia and Maryland on behalf of water, sewer, natural gas and electrical utility companies. Over the past 24 years, she has litigated in state and federal courts throughout the United States. She also has extensive experience in handling the arbitration of all types of commercial disputes. In addition to litigation, she drafts and negotiates contracts related to commercial development, design and construction, including architectural, project management and general contractor agreements.


Practices & Industries
Firm Management
  • Deputy Managing Partner for Business Development, 2011-
  • Member, Board of Partners
  • Member, Executive Committee
  • Past Chair, Complex Commercial Litigation Department
  • Past Managing Partner, Tysons Corner Office
  • Past Chair, Nominating Committee for Board of Partners
  • Past Member, Associate Committee
  • Past Chair, Women's Business Development Committee
  • Past Member, Recruiting Committee

Honors
  • Named One of Virginia's "Legal Elite," Virginia Business, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011
  • Named a Virginia "Super Lawyer," 2007-2011
  • Named a Washington, D.C. "Super Lawyer," 2007-2011
  • Selected a "Leader in the Law," Virginia Lawyers Weekly, 2010
  • Named "Top Washington Real Estate Litigation Lawyer," Washington Business Journal, 2008
  • Named a Finalist in "Top Washington Lawyers," Washington Business Journal, 2007
  • Named a Faculty Member for Virginia State Bar Harry L. Carrico Professionalism Course

Professional Affiliations
  • Virginia Bar Association
    • Board of Governors, 2012-2015
    • Past Chair, Construction and Public Contracts Section
    • Past Board Member, Commercial Litigation Section
  • Past Member, Fairfax County Superintendent of School Business and Industry Advisory Council
  • Past Board Member, Fairfax Bar Foundation, 1996
  • Girl Scouts of the National Capital Area
    • Board of Directors
    • Women's Advisory Board
  • Advisory Board, National Association of Law Placement (NALP)
 

EDUCATION

George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia, J.D., magna cum laude, 1987

  • Law Review: Notes Editor, George Mason University Law Review, 1986-1987

University of Texas, Austin, Texas, B.S., summa cum laude, 1976

 
 

ADMITTED

Virginia 1987

District of Columbia 1988

Maryland 1995

 

PLACE OF BIRTH

Fort Rucker, Alabama