Timothy P. Bosson, Esq.
Principal
Tim Bosson formed the Bosson Legal Group, P.C. in August of 2017, desiring to utilize his 11years of practice in diverse areas of law to provide an optimal service to clients. He focuses his practice primarily in the areas of for and non-profit corporation law and business, consumer fraud, personal injury, and employment litigation.
Mr. Bosson most recently served as the Executive Director of the Christian Legal Aid of DC (“CLADC”) where he provided pro bono legal services to the neediest of D.C. residents. In addition to his duties running the organization, Mr. Bosson maintained a full caseload of pro and low bono cases. Mr. Bosson litigated a diverse array of cases in the Superior Court of D.C., ranging from employment litigation and consumer fraud to family law and will disputes. At the same time, Mr. Bosson also took on select complex litigation matters while serving as Of Counsel with a law firm in Alexandria.
Before serving with CLADC, Mr. Bosson practiced eight years with a regional law firm, ultimately leading its Virginia litigation practice. Mr. Bosson has extensive experience representing businesses, non-profit corporations, churches, and individuals and has handled numerous cases in Mediation, Arbitration, Virginia and District of Columbia State and Federal courts, the Federal Court of Claims, the Virginia Supreme Court and the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Experience:
Mr. Bosson has extensive experience litigating cases in the following areas:
Constitutional Law – representing individuals, Churches, and other entities in cases involving 1983 Civil Rights violations, Federal Religious Land Use, and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) violations, zoning disputes, tax exemption, and religious discrimination.
Employment – representing individuals in cases regarding Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations, Federal Title VII claims, VA State Wage and Hour violations, unemployment compensation disputes, pregnancy discrimination, retaliation and breach of employment contract issues.
Business – representing corporations and individuals in cases regarding state business torts, including trade secret, hiring, non-competition, consumer fraud, and fiduciary duty violations. Mr. Bosson also has extensive experience litigating an assortment of contracts, construction agreements, loan documents and other written or oral agreements.
Personal Injury – Mr. Bosson has represented numerous individuals who have suffered traumatic injuries, including wrongful deaths and quadriplegia, from car or pedestrian accidents, slip and falls, and intentional assaults. Mr. Bosson also concentrates in insurance coverage disputes.
Notable Trial Results:
Ward v. G.W. Motors, Inc. (American Arbitration Association, 16 457 Y 00715 13, 2015); Mr. Bosson brought an action for a minority owner to receive a fair buy-out of his shares in a Corporation. The client had been offered negative $25,000 for his 28% interest in the Company before the Arbitration; Mr. Bosson secured an award for the client of $617,977 plus an award of attorney fees in the amount of $235,219.
Home Care Solutions, LLC v. Capital Home Health Care, et. al., (Loudoun Cty, VA, CN 81820, 2015); Mr. Bosson brought claims of breach of contract, business conspiracy and tortious interference with contract for a staffing company who had an employee wrongfully taken by a former customer. The jury found for Mr. Bosson’s client and awarded $550,000 in damages and the court awarded attorney fees of $75,000.
Bailey v. Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office, 288 Va. 159 (2014); Mr. Bosson brought a class action for over 50 Sheriff Deputies who had been wrongly underpaid for overtime hours. Mr. Bosson, who had won part of the case at Trial, appealed the portion of the case he lost to the VA Supreme Court. The Supreme Court overturned the lower court’s decision and entered judgment in favor of the Sheriff Deputies. In the end, the Deputies were awarded a total of $148,763 in unpaid wages.
Young v. Hoffman (Loudoun Cty, VA, CN 72949, 2013); Mr. Bosson represented an African-American man who was being mercilessly harassed and falsely charged with crimes by his white female neighbor. The Jury awarded the client almost $100,000, mostly punitive damages, and the Court awarded the client $40,000 in attorney fees. Because of its novelty and importance, the case made the front page of the Virginia Lawyers Weekly Newspaper (8/5/13).
Prinz v. Piper, et. al., 09-C-415 (WV Cir. Ct., Jefferson County 2013). Mr. Bosson was co-counsel in a wrongful death automobile crash where the jury awarded the Plaintiff, the estate of the deceased car passenger, $2.125 million dollars.
Riverdale Baptist Church, et. al., v. Anne Arundel County (US District Court of Maryland, JFM 06-CV-2796, 2010). A RLUIPA case where Anne Arundel County created discriminatory zoning and land use regulations that prevented the Church from building a facility for its Christian school. Three weeks in to a hotly contested jury trial the County conceded and agreed to allow the Church to build its private school and paid $3.25 million dollars.
Recent Reported Cases:
Hannah P. v. Coats, 916 F.3d 327 (4th. Cir. 2019). [On Appeal to US Supreme Court]
Glassman v. Arlington Cty., 628 F.3d 140, 142 (4th Cir. 2010).
Shume v. Pearson Educ., Inc., CN. 16-800, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 52360 (D.D.C. 2018).
Howell v. Moore, CN. 3:16-cv-649, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 163215 (E.D. Va. 2017).
Charles v. Front Royal Volunteer Fire & Rescue Dep’t, Inc., CN. 5:13-cv-0120, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 131287 (W.D. Va. 2014).
Baber v. Cty. of Frederick, Va., CN. 5:12-cv-037, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 101253 (W.D. Va. 2013).
Eaton v. Baer, 2018 Va. Unpub. Lexis 22 (2018).
Bailey v. Loudoun Cty. Sheriff’s Office, 288 Va. 159, 167, 762 S.E.2d 763, 765 (2014).
Town of Leesburg v. Long Lane Assocs. Ltd. P’ship, 284 Va. 127, 131, 726 S.E.2d 27, 29 (2012).
State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Prinz, 231 W. Va. 96, 743 S.E.2d 907 (2013).
Awards:
Super Lawyers, Rising Star 2016 (D.C.)
Super Lawyers, Rising Star 2015 (Virginia, D.C.)
Admissions:
Virginia State Bar, Admitted 2006; District of Columbia Bar, Admitted 2016
Member, US Tax Court; Federal Court of Claims; Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia; 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and US Supreme Court
Education:
Campbell University School of Law, Juris Doctorate, Cum Laude, May 2006
Notes and Comments Editor, Campbell Law Review
University of Georgia, B.B.A., Finance, Cum Laude, December 2001