Practices
About
Colin Neal is an associate attorney at Carr Maloney P.C. He focuses his practice on Professional Liability, General Liability, Business Law and Commercial Litigation, and Complex Litigation.
Prior to joining the firm, Colin served as a law clerk to the Honorable William T. Newman, Jr., Chief Judge for the Arlington County Circuit Court, where he drafted numerous written opinions for the Chief Judge and managed the civil motions docket and criminal sentencing docket caseloads.
Colin graduated from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary, which he attended on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Academic Scholarship. A member of the Bill of Rights Journal, Colin’s student note “Not Gill-ty: Challenging and Providing a Workable Alternative to the Supreme Court’s Gerrymandering Standing Analysis in Gill v. Whitford” was published in 2020. Colin served as President of the Equality Alliance, leading the effort to re-establish William & Mary’s LGBTQ+ legal and social advocacy organization. He was also a member of the Phi Delta Phi Legal Honors Fraternity.
During law school, Colin interned with the Honorable Henry E. Hudson, Senior Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Colin also interned in the U.S. Dept. of Education Office of Hearings and Appeals, where he worked for the Honorable Robert Layton and the Honorable Angela Miranda, Administrative Law Judges.
Colin graduated from the University of Virginia with an undergraduate degree in Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law (PPL) and American Government.
Education
Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary
J.D.
University of Virginia
B.A.
Publications
- Contributing Author to Carr Maloney’s Cannabis Legal Blog
- “What Did The Plaintiff Know and When Did He Know It? The Availability of Post-Trial Discovery to Pursue Sanctions Under VA. Code ANN. 8.01-271.1″, Journal of Civil Litigation, Spring 2024
Admissions
States
District of Columbia
Virginia
U.S. District Courts
District of Columbia
Eastern District of Virginia
Western District of Virginia
U.S. Court of Appeals
Fourth Circuit
Affiliations
Chair of the Professional Liability Section- Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, 2023-Current