Bio

Trial lawyer Wayne Travell’s primary goal is to develop a strong working relationship with his business clients so that, together, they can design a dispute resolution strategy that is specifically tailored to the company’s business objectives. Business disputes are a fact of life. At times, that means going “all-in” on bet-the-business, high-stakes litigation; more often, it means working with the opposing party to fashion a resolution that serves the ends of both, particularly where the parties may need to live and work in the same industry. Wayne works closely with owners of privately held businesses and with general counsel and senior executives of publicly traded companies to understand their industries and the results that will best suit their overall strategy. He strives to provide clients with a sober and objective evaluation of the strengths and weakness­es of their circumstances and to guide them toward a successful resolution of their disputes. Wayne brings more than three-and-a-half decades of experience as a trial and appellate advocate in the state and federal courts in Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia and elsewhere. He also has tried arbitration cases before the American Arbitration Association, JAMS/Endispute, and numerous private arbitration panels. He is a trained and experienced mediator and has had great success in achieving mediated settlements. Wayne regularly serves as local counsel for out of state firms in the federal and state courts of Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia and has served as lead counsel in lawsuits filed in Delaware and New Jersey. Prior to joining Hirschler, Wayne served as managing partner of Leach Travell, a firm he co-founded with Steve Leach in January 2003. Before that, he was a litigation partner in the Tysons office of Venable LLP and a shareholder, head of the litigation group, and a member of the management committee, at Tucker Flyer P.C. in Washington, D.C. In 2018, Wayne was elected to the Virginia State Bar Council for the 19th Judicial Circuit, for which he is currently serving a three-year term.