Phillip C. Stone

Phillip C. Stone is a Virginia attorney who advises clients on estate planning, estate administration, charitable gift planning, nonprofit organizations, and business planning matters. His work helps individuals, families, charities, and organizations prepare for important financial and legal decisions. He brings long legal experience, leadership judgment, and practical guidance to matters involving assets, legacy goals, fiduciary duties, charitable plans, governance needs, and careful planning for future generations and institutions.

Phillip earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He also earned his B.A. in economics, with honors, from Bridgewater College. His education supports strong legal analysis, writing, ethics, and strategic planning skills. He uses that foundation to explain estate, nonprofit, charitable, and business issues in clear terms, helping clients understand legal options before making decisions that affect property, organizations, families, and long-term plans.

Phillip practiced law for many years before serving as president of Bridgewater College and later Sweet Briar College. His leadership in higher education, nonprofit boards, and professional organizations gives him broad insight into governance, institutional planning, and public responsibility. He has also served in major bar leadership roles, including president of the Virginia Bar Association, and contributed to ethics, professionalism, discipline, and civil litigation standards statewide for lawyers and courts.

Phillip C. Stone has received extensive recognition for legal service, education leadership, professionalism, and community involvement. His honors include fellowships in respected legal foundations, civil litigation recognition, professionalism awards, honorary degrees, and leadership awards from educational and civic organizations. Through estate planning, charitable planning, nonprofit counseling, and business guidance, he helps clients protect interests, support meaningful causes, and make sound decisions with integrity and practical judgment.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Stone Law Group, PLC
• President, Virginia Bar Association (1997)
• Fellow, Virginia Law Foundation (1988)
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation (1989)
• Chair, NCAA III Presidents Council (2004-2006)
• Member, Commonwealth Transportation Board (2002-2005)
• Board Member, Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation
• Board Member, Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest
• Member, Board of Advisors, The Lincoln Forum
• President, Virginia Council of School Attorneys (1991-1992)
• Member, Advisory Committee, U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (2006- 2010)
• Member, Virginia Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Anniversary Committee
• Member, Judicial Conference for Fourth U.S. Circuit
• Member, Virginia Bar Association Commission on Professionalism (2007- 2010)

Licensed State

• Virginia

Education

• University of Virginia School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Bridgewater College
  B.A. in Economics

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