William A. Lascara - Virginia Beach, VA

Overview

Bill Lascara is a firm shareholder focusing his practice on public procurement and government contract law, construction law, litigation, real estate, and corporate and transactional law.

For more than 20 years, Bill has represented small and large businesses as well as individuals providing his experience and knowledge in corporate transactions, public procurement and government contracts, business, real estate, labor, construction, creditors collection actions, insurance and administrative law issues, including general trial litigation and appellate practice. For 13 years, Bill served as Pender & Coward's CFO and he was in-house general counsel for a ship repair, electronics, construction and computer graphics industry company and its subsidiaries for all their legal requirements in these same areas of the law for over ten years.

A frequent speaker at conferences, continuing legal education seminars and Bar Association conferences, Bill shares his insights on topics including:

Construction Disputes on Commercial and Mixed Use Condominium Projects
Construction Lien Law in Virginia
Virginia Construction Law: How to Get Paid
Virginia Construction Law: What Do You Do When...?
Construction Lien Law in Virginia
Fundamentals of Construction Contracts
Ethics in Bidding and Relationships Among Competitors
Resolving Problems and Disputes on Construction Projects
Public Contracts and Procurement Regulations in Virginia
Construction Law for Public Projects
Virginia Law for Design Professionals

REPRESENTATIVE CASES & TRANSACTIONS
CBR, Inc. v. David A. Naff, 1997 WL 1088126, 1997 Bankr LEXIS 2385 (Bankr. E.D.Va. July 18, 1997)

In re Taylor, 1998 Bankr. LEXIS 1791 (Bkrtcy. E.D.Va. Dec. 16, 1998)

Turzac Construction Corporation v. Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, Board for Contractors, 2007 WL 148825 (Va.App. Jan. 23, 2007)

Cars Unlimited II, Inc. v. National Motor Company, Inc., 472 F.Supp.2d 740 (E.D.Va. Jan. 19, 2007); Cars Unlimited II, Inc. v. National Motor Company, Inc., 2007 WL 2344990 (E.D.Va. Aug. 15, 2007)

Alexander v. Colston, 2015 Va. Cir. LEXIS 214 (Va. Bch. Cir. Ct. Jul. 2, 2015)

In re Colston, 539 B.R. 738, 2015 Bankr. LEXIS 3478 (Bankr. W.D. Va. 2015)

Roland v. Levin, 1998 Bankr. LEXIS 219, Case No. 96-27648, Chapter 11, APN 97-2234 (Bkrtcy. E.D.Va. February 18, 1998)

MEMBERSHIPS
Virginia Bar Association, Construction Law and Public Contracts Section and Real Property and Business Law Section Member since 1983, Past Chair of Construction Law and Public Contracts Section
Virginia State Bar Board of Governors, 1990-1992
Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Association
Virginia Beach Bar Association

HONORS & AWARDS
Coastal Virginia's Top Lawyers, Construction Law 2016-2021
Virginia's Legal Elite, Construction Law, 2013-2020
Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law 2019-2021, Constructon Law 2021
Virginia Beach Neptune Festival John J. Krueger Award, 2019
Triton in the Virginia Beach Neptune Festival, Court of King Neptune XXXIX, 2012

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
The Jefferson Trust Board of Trustees, 2016
Virginia Beach Vision Board of Directors, 2014-Present
Virginia Beach Neptune Festival, 2012 Triton, Board of Directors, 2013-Present, Executive Committee, 2015-Present, Friends Committee Fundraising, Co-Chair 2014, Chair 2015, 2016, Celebration Chairman 2017

PRACTICE AREAS
Construction Law
Corporate and Transactional
Government Contracts and Public Procurement
Litigation
Real Estate

EDUCATION
Juris Doctor, William and Mary Law School, 1983
University of Virginia, 1980

ADMISSIONS
Supreme Court of Virginia, 1983
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 1984
United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, 2009
United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 1997
United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Virginia, 2015
United States Court of Federal Claims, 1999
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1999
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1993
United States Supreme Court, 2000
Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, 1994