Trusted by Businesses and Individuals for 100 Years.
CWM is a multi-service firm dedicated to providing superior and cost-effective legal services to local, national, and international clients. Our nationally recognized attorneys advise and represent individuals, government agencies, and emerging and experienced businesses in matters ranging from litigation and dispute resolution to project finance and mergers and acquisitions.
Clients have turned to CWM for 100 years to help them achieve the best results possible. We have built strong and lasting relationships with our clients by providing individualized service and relentless determination, while still maintaining a tradition of high moral values, mutual respect, and professionalism.
Commitment to Community
Involvement in the community is highly regarded at CWM, as evidenced by the breadth of community positions held by its professionals. Universities, school boards, juvenile court programs, museums, libraries, and a variety of non-profit agencies have all benefited from the volunteer commitments of firm partners and associates. The firm strongly believes in its duty to support and enrich life for all citizens of its community.
Firm History
Through over nine decades, the firm has maintained a tradition of providing effective legal services of the highest caliber, earning its reputation as one of the premier law firms in Virginia.
Our firm came out of the early 1900s law practice of Edward R. Baird, Jr., an admiralty attorney working in Norfolk and Portsmouth. Mr. Baird was born in Essex County, VA, in 1867. In 1923, after about thirty years of practice, Mr. Baird joined with two other maritime attorneys—one from New York and one from Washington, D.C.—and formed the new law firm Baird, White & Lanning, with an office in Norfolk. The main practice areas in the early years were admiralty and railroad law.
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