Nathan J.D. Veldhuis

Nathan has broad litigation experience in fields as diverse as professional malpractice, personal injury, defamation, medical malpractice and mental health law. His keen legal skills, both in and out of the courtroom, benefit his clients in every negotiation, mediation, trial and appeal he undertakes on their behalf in the pursuit of justice and fair compensation. As an attorney in Allen & Allen's Fredericksburg and Garrisonville offices, Nathan's goal is to protect his clients' best interests and to ensure that their adversaries, be they an insurance company or a big corporation, do not gain an unfair advantage.

Nathan is committed to serving his profession through participation in many bar organizations. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Young Lawyers Conference of the Virginia State Bar and is Chair of the Young Lawyers Committee of the Virginia State Bar's Litigation Section. Nathan is active in the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association as Chair of the Young Lawyers Section, Co-Chair of the Amicus Curiae Committee and member of the Board of Governors. He serves as a Board member on a number of the Association's committees including the Continuing Legal Education Committee, the Ethics and Professionalism Committee, the Pro Bono Committee, the Public Affairs Committee and the Publications Committee. Also associated with the Virginia Bar Association, Nathan is a member of the organization's Young Lawyers Division, the National Moot Court Committee and the Civil Litigation Section.

Passionate about protecting the rights of those who are unable to care for themselves, Nathan is an adjunct professor and lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law in the Mental Health Law Clinic. In conjunction with the Legal Aid Center of Charlottesville, he lectures on topics including involuntary civil commitment, the liability of mental health care providers to their patients and to third parties, the right to refuse treatment and to be treated in the least restrictive environment and the relationship, if any, between mental health and violence. He is proud of his work as an advocate for mental health patients.

Education

• J.D. - George Mason University School of Law (2004)
• Visiting student at University of Virginia Law School (2003-2004)
• Master of Arts - Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia (2001)
• Bachelor of Arts (Magna Cum Laude) - Liberty University (1999)
• George Mason University (1992-1994)
• Licensed to practice law in the state of Virginia. Admitted to All State and Federal Courts in Virginia.

Experience

• Attorney, Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen (2009-Present)
• Adjunct Faculty and Lecturer, University of Virginia School of Law (2005-Present)
• Attorney, Tremblay & Smith LLP (2004-2009)
• Law Intern, The Honorable B. Waugh Crigler, United States Magistrate Judge for the Western District of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (Summer 2002-Spring 2003)

Honors

• Judge, Hill-Tucker Pre-Law Institute (2011)
• Judge, William B. Spong Moot Court Tournament (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
• Judge, National Moot Court Competition (2006)
• Mediator/Judge, American Bar Association Mediation Competition (2006)
• Judge, American Bar Association National Trial Competition (2006)
• Judge, George Mason University School of Law Intramural Moot Court Competition (2005)
• Mensa (2005-2007)

Professional Affiliations

• Virginia State Bar
  • Young Laywer's Conference
    • Member, Board of Governors; Board Liaison, Mental Health Law Committee; Chair, Pro Bono Commission; Co-Circuit Representative for 16th Judicial Circuit (2007-2009)
  • Litigation Section
    • Board Member; Chair, Young Lawyers Committee
• Virginia Trial Lawyers Association
  • Member, Board of Governors; Co-Chair, Amicus Curiae Committee; Immediate Past Chair, Young Trial Lawyers Section; Member, Appellate Section; Board Member, Continuing Legal Education Committee; Board Member, Membership Committee; Board Member, Public Affairs Committee; Board Member, Publications Committee; Board Member, Ethics and Professionalism Committee; Board Member, Pro Bono Committee; Chair, Ethics and Professionalism Committee (2008-2009); Vice-Chair, Young Trial Lawyers Section (2008-2009)
• Virginia Bar Association
  • Civil Litigation Section; Young Lawyers Division; National Moot Court Committee
• American Association for Justice
  • Young Lawyers Division
• American Bar Association
• Charlottesville Albemarle Bar Association (2004-2009)
  • Civil Litigation Section
  • Young Lawyers Conference
• Thomas Jefferson American Inn of Courts (2006-2009)
• Fredericksburg Bar Association
• 15th Judicial Circuit Bar Association
• Pro Bono Partner, Legal Aid Justice Center, Charlottesville, VA (2005-present)
• National Alliance on Mental Illness Lawyer Referral Service
• Mensa (2005-2007)

Community Service

• Board of Directors, Sexual Assault Resource Agency (2007-2009)
• Friends of Mason Soccer Advisory Board (Spring 2010-present)
• Allen Law Firm Scholarship Committee (2010)
• Crisis Intervention Task Force (CIT): Developing Alternatives for the Mentally Ill in the Criminal Justice System (City of Charlottesville and County of Albemarle) pursuant to the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act (S. 1194); Contracted CIT Evaluator (2006-2007)

Published Works & Research

• Veldhuis, NJ, Creager R. Draft VTLA's public comments on Virginia State Bar's proposed changes to the Rules of Professional Conduct 7.1 through 7.5 (and comments thereunder) and 1.15 (and comments thereunder).
• Veldhuis, NJ. To See To Say: The Essentials of Voir Dire.  Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Journal, Summer, 2010.  Republished in the Virginia State Bar's Litigation News, in press.
• Veldhuis, NJ, Creager R. Annual Tort Law Update.  Annual VTLA Convention, March 2010.
• Assisting with the University of Virginia's Institute on Aging in studying and formulating recommendations related to the voting rights of persons of advanced age and with potential concomitant mental health impairments.
• Drafting proposed Virginia Code Ann. § 37.2-806.1 "Admissions of Non-Protesting Persons Lacking Decisional Capacity to Mental Health Facilities" (for General Assembly Session 2009)
• Co-Author/Editor of The Virginia State Bar Young Lawyer's Conference Mental Health Law Volunteer Resource Handbook, October 2007 (2008-2009 updated revisions pending).
• Editor/Compiler of two volume set of "Course Materials" text book-required reading for second- and third-year law students enrolled in the Mental Health Law Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law.
• Primary Investigator of research study--EMERGENCY MENTAL HEALTH PROTOCOL: Process for evaluating the integration of mental health resources and the criminal justice system in the Charlottesville area.  University of Virginia Institutional Review Board Approval of Protocol 12931 on March 13, 2007.  Data gathering and evaluation related to treatment of patients who present with apparent mental health impairments in the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center's Emergency Room to evaluate effectiveness and efficiency-concluded, November 12, 2007.  Students from the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering assisted in data gathering and analysis under Primary Investigator's supervision.
• Veldhuis JD, Veldhuis NJ, Keenan DM, Iranmanesh A. Age Diminishes the Testicular Steroidogenic Response to Repeated Intravenous Pulses of Recombinant Human LH During Acute GnRH-Receptor Blockade in Healthy Men.  Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 288: E775-E781, 2005.
• Livingston RL, Veldhuis NJ.  Qualifying Out-Of-State Experts on the Standard of Care in Medical Malpractice Cases: Virginia's Sartorial Supreme Court and the Expert's White Coat.  Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Journal, Fall, 2004. Republished in the Virginia State Bar's Litigation News, Vol. XII, No. 2, Spring 2005.
• Veldhuis NJ, Demographic Factors Affect Volunteer Research Subjects' Recall of Consent Form Content.  Thesis Paper.  University of Virginia, Center for Biomedical Ethics.  August 2001.  Investigating shortcomings in the informed consent process in experimental research studies on human subjects.   This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (formerly, Human Investigations Committee), The National Institutes of Health, and the University of Virginia's General Clinical Research Center.  Additionally, this study attracted the attention of the University Hospital's Cancer Center Nephrology, Infectious Diseases, and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Departments, as well as Obstetrics and Gynecology, all of which agreed to, and did, participate in the study. 
•  Fox CR, Veldhuis NJ, Mulligan T, Iranmanesh A, and Veldhuis JD.  A novel paradigm of tandem GnRH antagonist administration and pulsatile iv infusion of recombinant human (rh) LH unveils prompt in vivo LH-testosterone secretory coupling in healthy humans.  In: 83^rd Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society, Denver, CO, 2001.

Reported Cases

• Wakolev. Barber, No. 102176, 2012Va. LEXIS 37 (March 2, 2012)
• Spear v. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, et al. pending in the Supreme Court of Virginia, (May 2010) (on brief, amicus curiae).
•  Clark v. De Veciana., 276 Va. 555; 2008 Va. LEXIS 118 (October 31, 2008) (Supreme Court of Virginia, on brief amicus curiae).
•  Jackson v. Hartig, et al., 645 S.E.2d 303, 2007 Va. LEXIS 96 (June 8, 2007) (Supreme Court of Virginia, on brief for Appellant) (petition for rehearing denied)
•  Isbell v. Commercial Investment Assoc., Inc., 644 S.E.2d 72, 2007 Va. LEXIS 52 (April 4, 2007) (Supreme Court of Virginia, on brief amicus curiae)
•  Castle v. Lester, 272 Va. 591, 636 S.E.2d 342 (2006) (Supreme Court of Virginia, on brief amicus curiae)
•  Kollman v. Jordan, 269 Va. 569, 612 S.E.2d 203 (2005) (Supreme Court of Virginia, on brief for Appellee)

Teaching

• Adjunct Faculty and Lecturer, Mental Health Law Clinic, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia (Fall 2005 - present)
• Developed and co-taught "Recent Developments in Mental Health Law," in conjunction with the Virginia State Bar's Young Lawyer's Conference's Mental Health Law Committee (Virginia State Bar, Richmond, Virginia, 2010; George Mason University School of Law, Arlington,  Virginia, May 2011)

Personal

Born in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Nathan spent much of his childhood in the Charlottesville area and now resides in Fredericksburg, Virginia with his wife and young son. He is an enthusiast for international soccer and college football and enjoys fishing and hiking.

Related Practice Areas

• Personal Injury
• Fredericksburg Car Accident Lawyers
• Fredericksburg Truck Accident Lawyers
• Fredericksburg Medical Malpractice Lawyer