Roy Larsen Carnes & Romm - Chesapeake, VA

Over Five Decades of Trusted Legal Advocacy in Hampton Roads

Established in 1975, Roy Larsen Carnes and Romm has served as an enduring pillar of the legal community in Chesapeake, Virginia, for more than fifty years. Operating from Cedar Lakes Drive in the heart of Chesapeake and maintaining an additional office in Virginia Beach, the firm represents injured citizens, families, and business enterprises across Hampton Roads, including Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Suffolk. When catastrophic injuries disrupt everyday life or high-stakes business conflicts threaten financial stability, individuals and organizations need a lawyer who combines courtroom trial experience with meticulous case preparation. Clients seeking to hire an attorney with deep institutional knowledge in Virginia civil law will find steadfast, trial-tested guidance at every stage of their legal matter.

Comprehensive Practice Areas in Civil Litigation and Injury Law

The firm maintains an aggressive civil litigation practice designed to level the playing field against large corporations, insurance companies, and negligent defendants. Drawing on decades of trial practice, the legal team delivers focused counsel across multiple practice areas:

• Car accident and vehicle collisions: Advocating for drivers and passengers who sustain broken bones, spinal damage, and severe trauma in highway wrecks, intersection T-bone collisions, and distracted driving crashes.
• Medical malpractice claims: Holding hospitals, surgeons, and healthcare specialists accountable for surgical mistakes, failure to diagnose serious medical conditions, and fatal clinical negligence.
• Wrongful death representation: Helping grieving families secure justice and compensation when a loved one dies due to commercial vehicle crashes, fatal workplace incidents, or medical negligence.
• Premises liability and slip and fall injuries: Pursuing property owners and commercial landlords whose failure to maintain safe facilities causes debilitating falls and orthopedic injuries.
• Defective product liability: Prosecuting product liability actions against manufacturers and distributors of dangerous medical equipment, consumer goods, and industrial tools.
• Trust and estate litigation: Representing beneficiaries and family members in lawsuits involving breach of fiduciary duties by trustees, fraudulent transfers, and contested probate administrations.
• Business litigation and contract disputes: Resolving shareholder conflicts, partnership dissolution fights, commercial insurance disputes, and breach of contract actions in state and federal courts.
• Real estate and construction litigation: Handling mechanic liens, title defects, builder liability claims, and commercial lease disagreements.

Seasoned Trial Acumen and Respected Professional Standing

Senior partner Gregory S. Larsen has earned widespread acclaim for his courtroom advocacy, including receiving the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers Medal for Excellence in Advocacy and being selected among the Virginia Business Legal Elite in civil litigation. The firm's verdicts and settlements have frequently appeared in Virginia Lawyers Weekly, demonstrating a record of achieving meaningful financial recoveries for seriously injured clients. Rather than rushing cases through assembly-line settlements, the attorneys thoroughly prepare every file for trial to ensure clients obtain fair treatment. Those who need to find a lawyer with five decades of local heritage and demonstrable trial results can depend on Roy Larsen Carnes and Romm for aggressive, ethical advocacy.