Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, LLP - Roanoke
10 Franklin Rd SE Ste 900, Roanoke, VA 24011
Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, LLP is a Virginia law firm serving businesses, institutions, organizations, public entities, and individuals in complex legal and business matters. Founded in Roanoke in 1923, the firm has grown into a statewide practice with offices in Roanoke, Lynchburg, Richmond, and Norfolk. Its attorneys combine sophisticated legal capabilities with responsive service, practical judgment, and a collaborative approach designed to help clients manage disputes, transactions, regulatory concerns, and long-term strategic needs.
Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, LLP provides corporate and transactional counsel involving business formation, mergers and acquisitions, financing, securities, taxation, employee benefits, intellectual property, technology, and commercial agreements. The firm advises established companies, emerging businesses, investors, financial institutions, healthcare organizations, educational institutions, and family-owned enterprises. Its lawyers help clients structure deals, address governance issues, protect important assets, navigate regulatory requirements, and respond to operational challenges that may affect growth, ownership, or future planning.
Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, LLP maintains broad litigation and dispute-resolution capabilities in business litigation, civil defense, construction, employment, healthcare, insurance, real estate, transportation, personal injury, and white-collar matters. The firm represents clients in state and federal courts, administrative proceedings, arbitration, mediation, and appeals. Its attorneys evaluate risk early, develop focused strategies, and seek efficient resolutions while remaining prepared to handle high-stakes disputes through trial when negotiation cannot adequately protect the client’s interests.
Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, LLP also advises on bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, government and regulatory affairs, environmental law, land use and zoning, trusts and estates, data privacy, cybersecurity, and economic development. Through its affiliation with ALFA International, the firm can coordinate legal support for clients with national and international needs. With more than 80 attorneys and over 100 years of history, the firm emphasizes accessibility, uncommon thinking, and trusted relationships across every engagement.