C. DOUGLAS WELTY
Shareholder and Member of the Firm
A native of Houston, Texas, Doug Welty is a graduate of Rice University (B.A., 1974) and the University of Virginia School of Law (J.D., 1982). Between college and law school, he served as a Naval Flight Officer in P-3 Orion antisubmarine and maritime patrol aircraft.
Mr. Welty is a member of the Virginia and District of Columbia Bars, as well as the Bars of the United States Supreme Court, the U. S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the District of Columbia Circuit, and most of the special-purpose federal courts located in Washington.
Mr. Welty is a member of the Virginia State Bar (Sections on Trusts & Estates and Business Law), the Virginia Bar Association (Section on Wills, Trusts & Estates), the Arlington County Bar Association (Section on Trusts & Estates), the Federalist Society, and the Christian Legal Society. He is a former Master of the Bench of the Federal American Inn of Court, and is an Allied Attorney of the Alliance Defense Fund.
Mr. Welty served as a Senior Editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law for the 1981-1982 academic year. He serves from time to time as a Continuing Legal Education instructor for bar association and private CLE programs, and is a member of the McLean Estate Planning Council and the NRA Foundation’s Volunteer Network of Estate Planning Professionals. He is qualified to act as a Guardian Ad Litem in adult guardianship cases.
From 2000 through 2004, Mr. Welty was a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Mary Washington. He is a member of The Falls Church.
Major Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Wills, Trusts & Estates (including probate and trust administration); Estate and Gift Taxation; Family Business Law; Corporation, Business, and Banking Law; Guardianship and Elder Law; and Estate and Business Litigation.
Other Practice Areas: Administrative Law; Constitutional Law.