Travis W. Vance

Contact Information

Email: tvance@wawlaw.com
Direct Line: 540 438 5350
Fax: 540 434 5502

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

Biography:

Travis W. Vance joined WAW in October of 2010. Mr. Vance is a native of Bristol, Tennessee/ Virginia and came home to the Valley with his wife, Whitney, a Virginia native, after practicing law in Columbia, South Carolina for nearly three years. Mr. Vance earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Sewanee: The University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., where he majored in American Studies, graduating cum laude. While at Sewanee, Mr. Vance was a member of the varsity baseball team and a 4-year NCAA letterman. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law. While at the University of South Carolina, Mr. Vance was a Carolina Legal Scholar, a Student Bar Association peer mentor, and a member of the Dean’s List.

Mr. Vance advises and represents clients in a variety of complex civil litigation disputes, including personal injury, corporate, construction, transportation, and employment law matters.  He also counsels employers on OSHA issues, including compliance and citation defense.  He regularly represents clients in Virginia’s state and federal courts, as well as in state and federal courts in the eastern United States.  He has appeared on behalf of clients at numerous motion hearings, depositions, trials, mediations, and arbitrations.  Mr. Vance has appeared as counsel in civil litigation matters pending in either state or federal courts in Virginia, Tennessee, New York (Second Circuit), and South Carolina, and (pro hac vice) in Alabama and Arkansas.  He has also appeared in OSHA matters pending in Alabama, Texas, and Colorado. 

Before arriving in the Shenandoah Valley, Mr. Vance practiced law in South Carolina for nearly three years, during which he tried matters in South Carolina Magistrate’s and Circuit Courts, as well as United States District Court.  Mr. Vance assisted with preparation for the first jury trial held in the Orangeburg County, South Carolina Probate Court and dissolution of the first rural electric cooperative dissolved in South Carolina.

Practice Focus

• General Civil Litigation
• Construction Litigation
• Personal Injury Litigation
• Business Litigation
• Insurance Defense Litigation
• Employment Litigation
• OSHA Compliance/Litigation
• Transportation Litigation
• Federal/Complex Civil Litigation

Education

• B.A., American Studies (with honors), cum laude, 2004, Sewanee: The University of the South.
• J.D., 2007, University of South Carolina School of Law

Admitted to Practice

• 2007, South Carolina
• 2008, U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina
• 2010, Virginia
• 2010, Tennessee
• 2010, United States Tax Court
• 2010, U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia
• 2010, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
• 2011, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Presentations/Articles:

• Co-Presenter, Virginia State Claims Association Meeting, "Products Liability Subrogation:  Spoliation and Daubert Challenges" October 2011, Staunton, Virginia
• Co-founder of the Columbia (SC) Attorney Basketball League, which was formed to help raise funds for a Columbia underprivileged children’s home. The basketball league was featured in a May 2010 edition of The State (SC) newspaper and on a national legal website.

Memberships/Awards

• Virginia's Legal Elite - Young Lawyers, 2011, Virginia Business Magazine
• 26th Circuit Representative - Young Lawyer Conference of the Virginia State Bar (2011-Present)
• Member, President-Nominee, Rockingham County Rotary Club
• Member, Harrisonburg Association of Young Professionals
• South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Trial Academy
• Defense Research Institute
• Board of Directors, Columbia (South Carolina) - Capital Rotary Club, 2009-2010
• Member, Asbury United Methodist Church, Harrisonburg