Robert A. Dybing is a shareholder in Thompson McMullan. Mr. Dybing has a Martindale-Hubbell peer review rating of AV. He represents a wide range of clients including businesses, public officials, cities, counties, university officers, as well as private individuals.
Mr. Dybing is primarily a trial lawyer. His areas of specialty include trial and appellate litigation in federal and state courts, business formation and acquisitions, employment law (including Title VII, ADA, ADEA and related statutes), real estate, civil rights and constitutional law claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, commercial litigation, and insurance defense.
Mr. Dybing has many published cases from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Federal District Courts, and the Supreme Court of Virginia, including Figg v. Schroeder, 312 F.3d 625 (4th Cir. 2002); NHEMA v. Face, 239 F.3d 633 (4th Cir. 2001); GTE South, Inc. v. Morrison, 199 F.3d 733 (4th Cir. 1999); and Glasco v. Ballard, 249 Va. 61, 452 S.E.2d 854 (1995). In 2007, he represented the Commissioners of the Virginia State Corporation in protracted litigation challenging the constitutionality of the Virginia Viatical Settlements Act, a statute which protects the terminally ill from predatory insurance practices. The Virginia Act was upheld in Life Partners v. Morrison, 484 F.3d 284 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 2007 U.S. LEXIS 12749 (Dec. 3, 2007)
A native of New York City, Mr. Dybing was graduated from Brooklyn College, and, in 1973, from the University of Louisville School of Law, where he was Associate Editor of the Law Review. He practiced with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York City following law school. He later was a principal in two Richmond-area businesses.
Mr. Dybing is President of the Board of Directors of SupportOne, Inc., which provides housing for disabled citizens. He was a founding director of the Central Virginia Foodbank, Inc., and served two terms as President. In 2004, he was appointed Visiting Professor in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Mass Communications. He wrote “Overcoming a Qualified Immunity Defense,” Journal of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (Spring 1996), and regularly publishes articles on matters affecting Virginia Constitutional Officers. He is an instructor at Rappahannock Regional Criminal Justice Academy.
Virginia Business magazine has listed Mr. Dybing among “Virginia’s Elite” civil litigation attorneys. In 2007, Mr. Dybing was listed as one of Virginia’s “Superlawyers.” Mr. Dybing is a member of the Virginia State Bar Professionalism Course Faculty.
Mr. Dybing is licensed to practice in Virginia and New York. Bar memberships: Virginia Bar Association, Richmond Bar Association, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the Eastern District Bankruptcy Court, and to the Supreme Court of Virginia.
Robert A. Dybing's Practice Areas
Attorneys
- Hugh T. Antrim
- Mark R. Colombell
- Lucy G. Davis
- Robert A. Dybing
- Sherry A. Fox
- John A. Gibney, Jr.
- Richard L. Grier
- Paul G. Izzo
- Thomas D. Lane
- Charles W. Laughlin
- Robert C. Lyne
- R. Shawn Majette
- Christopher M. Malone
- C. Grice McMullan, Jr.
- Dewey B. Morris
- J. Christopher Morris
- Robert R. Musick
- Adam R. Nelson
- Jennifer F. Sullivan
- Neil S. Talegaonkar
- John B. Thompson
- Wilson R. Trice
- William W. Tunner
- Sarah B. Warner
- Robert A. Warwick
- Andrea J. Yoak