Justin’s practice is built to serve a diverse range of clients across the business spectrum, including:

• Private Equity & Family Offices: Acting as lead counsel for funds, family offices, and independent sponsors in lower middle market buyouts, regularly advising repeat buyers across multiple transactions and handling deals from letter of intent through closing.

• Strategic Acquirers: Guiding large enterprises through bolt-on acquisitions of smaller targets, conducting diligence and managing transactions from acquisition strategy through closing.

• Outside General Counsel: Advising large companies on commercial risk, complex contract negotiations, and corporate restructuring, often functioning as long-term strategic legal counsel for growing businesses.

• Search Funds (ETA): Counseling first-time buyers and MBAs on acquiring legacy, cash-flowing businesses, including navigating SBA financing, seller dynamics, and deal structure.

• Founders & Startups: Structuring venture capital financings from seed to preferred equity and designing shareholder agreements that protect a founder’s long-term vision.

• Referral Partners: Collaborating with other law firms as special deal counsel to handle complex transactional needs for their litigation or generalist clients.

A skilled negotiator, Justin above all prizes the role of counselor—guiding clients through key decisions at key moments in the life of their businesses. Clients value his ability to balance deal velocity with clear-eyed risk assessment and sound decision-making at critical moments.

Justin began his legal career at McGuireWoods, where he practiced in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, private equity, restructurings, and commercial contracts. In 2019 he began his own law practice which has evolved into Avodah Legal. He earned his undergraduate degree in English literature from the University of Virginia and his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.

In addition to his legal practice, Justin is the author of numerous books and a frequently sought-after speaker on habits, mental health, and wellness in the legal profession. He is married to his wife, Lauren, and they have four sons.