Lawrence H. Hoover, Jr.
Esquire

Larry Hoover is a leading mediator, facilitator and trainer. He has been active in dispute resolution for over twenty years and has been circuit court-civil and circuit court-family certified by the Supreme Court of Virginia since 1993. His experience includes family, small business, trusts and estates, employment, local government, public policy and organizational disputes. He is widely recognized as one of the pioneers of the ADR movement in Virginia. In 2001 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Chief Justice Carico for his contribution to ADR.

Mr. Hoover has had a long legal career at Hoover, Penrod, Davenport & Crist in Harrisonburg and is now of counsel in the Hoover Penrod firm. He is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (Virginia Chapter), the Virginia Mediation Network and the Dispute Resolution Section of the American Bar Association. He served as Chair of the Virginia State Bar/Virginia Bar Association Joint Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution from 1989-1992. He is one of the founders and a Past President of the Community Mediation Center in Harrisonburg.

Mr. Hoover is an adjunct professor of negotiation and mediation at Washington & Lee University School of Law and previously at the University of Virginia School of Law. He also served as academic director of the Caux Scholars Program in Conflict Transformation (Caux, Switzerland) and for ten years as Chair of the Board of Reference of the Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University. As part of his teaching, he is also a certified administrator of the enneagram in the narrative tradition. In addition to his teaching, Mr. Hoover is a frequent lecturer and author on alternative dispute resolution topics.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Hampden-Sydney, Mr. Hoover went on to receive his JD from the University of Virginia Law School where he was Order of the Coif and a member of the Law Review.