Laura Lee Garrett is a member of the firm’s Real Estate & Finance, Medical Campus Development and Corporate Practice Groups.  Her practice focuses on shopping center and mixed use development, real estate investment, leasing and finance.  She has worked as in-house real estate counsel for two Fortune 500 retailers, allowing her to experience first hand the business side of retail and corporate real estate as well as the operations of large public companies.  Laura Lee represents investors, developers, tenants and lenders in a wide variety of complex transactions including student housing, hotel development, anchor tenant leasing, tax-deferred exchanges, mergers and acquisitions, real estate purchases and sales, rehabilitation projects utilizing federal and state historic tax credits, medical campus development and condominium development.  She also has significant experience in office and warehouse leasing and finance.  Laura Lee is the firm's "resident expert" on Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, and counsels both secured parties and debtors in secured transactions.

As a member of the Medical Campus Development Practice Group, Laura Lee teams up with the firm's health care lawyers in representing clients in healthcare facilities development.  She is experienced in senior housing and medical office building development, including business structure, land acquisition, leasing, financing and disposition.  She regularly represents specialized medical practice groups in leasing and purchasing highly customized facilities.

She was selected to be included in “Virginia Super Lawyers” in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, and for inclusion in Virginia Business magazine’s 2008 Legal Elite.  Laura Lee is actively involved with the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and is on the Executive Committee of the Richmond District Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI).  She serves on the Board of Directors and the Real Estate Development Committee of the Better Housing Coalition and is President of the endowment board of ChildSavers. Laura Lee has been an adjunct professor at William and Mary Law School, teaching Real Estate Transactions.