The ELA is proud to welcome our newest member firms: Arizona - Osborn Maledon, Cambodia - DFDL, Maryland - Miles & Stockbridge, Myanmar - DFDL, New Zealand - Chapman Tripp, and Virginia - Woods Rogers!
The ELA is proud to welcome our newest member firms: Arizona - Osborn Maledon, Cambodia - DFDL, Maryland - Miles & Stockbridge, Myanmar - DFDL, New Zealand - Chapman Tripp, and Virginia - Woods Rogers!
R. Patrick Bolling

R. Patrick Bolling
Virginia Employment Lawyer

Principal

Virginia

Professionals across the nation depend on Patrick to help them resolve personnel matters of every variety. Patrick is experienced in the negotiation and administration of collective bargaining agreements, discipline, discharge and grievance processing, and arbitrating labor disputes. He routinely defends management in state and federal employment lawsuits, conducts preventative management training, and speaks at industry conventions on a variety of labor and employment topics.

In May 2025, Patrick was recognized as one of Virginia Business magazine's Forty Under 40. He is recognized as a rising leader in the bar: peers elected him Chair of the Virginia Bar Association’s Young Lawyer’s Division, and voted him into a number of industry publications, including Virginia Super Lawyers and Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite. Patrick has served his community on a number of civic boards and is an adjunct professor at the Washington & Lee University School of Law, his alma mater.

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