Matthew W. Light

Contact Information

Email: mlight@wawlaw.com
Direct Line: 540 438 5339
Fax: 540 434 5502

Wharton Aldhizer and Weaver
100 South Mason Street
Harrisonburg, VA 22801

Matthew W. Light counsels clients on a wide variety of issues ranging from tax and succession planning for businesses to drafting and the administration of wills and trust documents for individuals to business set-up and entity formation to the closing of complicated real estate transactions. Mr. Light joined Wharton Aldhizer & Weaver PLC after completing a one-year federal judicial clerkship with the Honorable James C. Turk, United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia.

Practice Focus

• Business and Commercial Law
• Business Litigation
• Commercial Finance
• Corporate, Securities, Municipal and Commercial Transactions
• Employment and Employee Benefits
• Municipal Law
• Real Estate and Land Use
• Taxation and Tax Planning
• Wills, Estates, Trusts and Estate Administration

Education

• Drew University (B.A., 1998)
• Washington & Lee University School of Law (J.D., 2001)

Admitted to Practice

• Virginia (2002)

Memberships & Awards

• Virginia's Legal Elite, Virginia Business Magazine
• Named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers
• CV Rated with Martindale-Hubbell
• Virginia State Bar
• Harrisonburg-Rockingham Bar Association (Treasurer 2005-2006)
• Association of Young Professionals
• Town Attorney - Town of Grottoes (2004-2006)
• President - Kiwanis Club of Harrisonburg, VA