History of the Petersburg Office

In 1988, Allen and Allen made a commitment to provide legal services in locations more convenient to its clients. To keep that pledge, the firm opened its first branch in Petersburg, Virginia to serve clients from all over Southside Virginia. Over the last 18 years, clients have come to our Petersburg, office from Petersburg, Southern Chesterfield, Prince George, Dinwiddie County, Sussex, Emporia, South Hill, and as far west as Halifax and as far east as Southampton County and Suffolk.

Client response to the new Petersburg, office was so positive the firm soon moved from its small office across from the local Circuit Court to larger headquarters in a restored, historic house at the corner of Wythe and Market Streets. The brick house was built in 1850 by Archibald Graham McIlwaine as a gift for his daughter Jane when she married. Almost twenty years have passed, and Allen and Allen is still serving Southside Virginia clients out of the Jane McIlwaine house across Wythe Street from the fire station.

Allen and Allen is pleased to have one of our partners, Paul D. Hux, as managing attorney in its Petersburg, office. Mr. Hux graduated from The University of Richmond Law School in 1991 and has been practicing law for over seventeen years. He brings to the Petersburg branch a wealth of legal and practical experience in handling personal injury claims. He is assisted by an able and well-trained staff of legal assistants and a claims consultant, Robert L. Mertig.