Ron Feinman

Virginia Elder Law, PLC
Mr. Feinman, founder and principal in Virginia Elder Law, PLC, is a native of Lynchburg, Virginia. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1979 and maintains a private practice serving all of Central Virginia. Raised in a legal household, Mr. Feinman began practice with his father where he developed expertise in civil litigation, sophisticated real estate law, contracts and commercial law, as well as sophisticated tax and trusts and estate planning. His focus shifted to special needs planning and elder law in the late 1990’s and has been his focus ever since. Mr. Feinman is a member of Wealth Counsel, a national collaborative of estate planning attorneys developing and sharing state of the art planning techniques, documentation and processes, and its sister organization, Elder Counsel, with a similar focus on Elder Law. For many years Mr. Feinman participated as a member of Medicaid Practice Systems, another nationwide Elder Law attorney consortium. He is a member of the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) and serves on the board of the Virginia Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (VAELA). He spent 9 years as a board member of the Commonwealth Community Trust (a nationwide pooled disability trust located in Richmond Virginia) and still serves on its Disbursement Committee; he drafted the amendments to allow the Trust to accept clients from all 50 states and to incorporate Medicare set aside sub-trusts under its master trust agreement. Mr. Feinman is past member of the Charitable Planning Committee of the Association for Advanced Life Underwriting and is a former board member and past president of the National Association of Philanthropic Planners (NAPP). Mr. Feinman is a member of the Virginia State Bar Taxation Section and the Trusts and Estates Sections, and the Central Virginia Estate Planning Council.