Alperin Law PLLC

Focus and practice areas

The firm works across the Hampton Roads region of Virginia, and its own pages describe it as a team of estate planning and elder law attorneys. The practice list backs that up. Estate planning and elder law come first, and Medicaid planning follows close behind.

Those three areas tend to travel together. A client who plans an estate often needs a plan for long-term care, and Medicaid rules shape how that care gets paid for. Alperin Law groups the work so one firm can handle the will, the trust, and the Medicaid question in order. Special needs planning sits on the list too, a piece that matters for families providing for a disabled relative while keeping public benefits intact.

The site also lists probate and trust administration alongside litigation. It covers real estate, business law and succession planning, Social Security disability, and veterans pension and disability benefits. The presence of a litigation department next to the planning work means a will contest or a trust dispute can stay with the same firm. In my opinion that spread reads as a practice built around families and the assets they pass on, with courtroom work kept close for the disputes that estates can produce.

How the team is built

Scott Alperin founded the firm and works as its principal attorney. The site names him co-chair across all of the firm's departments. That setup puts the founder's hand in each area of practice while other attorneys chair or co-chair the individual departments. The result is a structure where responsibility for each service has a name attached at the top.

The attorneys named on the site

Ryan R. Reyes chairs the estate planning department and co-chairs litigation. He graduated from Regent University School of Law in 2014. His work spans general litigation, estate planning and probate, estate and trust litigation, and business real estate matters. That mix lets him carry a case from the planning stage into a dispute if one arises.

Lindsay Frederick co-chairs the real estate and business law department. Justin Pierce co-chairs estate and trust administration. James Backus practices as an attorney with the firm. The department titles line up with the practice areas the site presents, so each major service has a named lawyer attached to it.

Vania O'Keefe handles estate planning in the Chesapeake area. She studied at Old Dominion University and Francis Marion University and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. She received her J.D. from the University of Richmond, T. C. Williams School of Law. During law school she interned with Legal Aid and with the office of the Chesapeake Commonwealth's Attorney.

Where clients come from

The contact page states five office locations serving Hampton Roads, the Eastern Shore, and Eastern Virginia. The firm has offices in Virginia Beach, Norfolk, and Suffolk. Its named service area reaches Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Newport News, Hampton, Williamsburg, Poquoson, and Suffolk.

Coverage extends to the Eastern Shore counties of Northampton and Accomack. The named cities include the region's larger population centers, and the Eastern Shore counties add a rural stretch to the north. As a reviewer, I read a five-office footprint as a sign the firm wants to stay reachable across a wide part of coastal Virginia. For elder law clients, who can find travel hard, an office in the next city over is a practical help. That geographic spread lines up with a client base drawn from Hampton Roads.

Services beyond the legal work

The firm brands itself as Alperin Law and Wealth, and the pages carry services past the legal menu. Tax planning and preparation sit next to the estate and elder law work. Financial and retirement planning, investment management, risk management, and fiduciary services round out the money side. For clients, that means the person drafting a trust and the people managing the assets inside it can work from the same office.

Elder care coordination is available for aging clients and their families. That pairing of legal advice with care coordination fits the elder law focus, since aging often brings legal, financial, and care questions at the same moment. A family can bring all of those to one place.

Keeping tax and wealth staff in-house alongside the attorneys lets clients hold more of their planning together. It also lets a family tell its story once and have the legal, tax, and financial sides work from it. The model suits people who want their planning coordinated by a single team.

What the public pages show

The firm keeps public profiles on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, and YouTube. Its registered legal name is Alperin Law PLLC, and Virginia Beach is the base for the work. Map listings carry the same Alperin Law PLLC name across its Virginia Beach, Norfolk, and Suffolk locations. The site does not list a founding year.

The pages present a legal menu that covers estate planning, elder law, litigation, real estate, and business work. Tax and wealth services support that menu, and six named attorneys carry it. Clients come from across Hampton Roads and the Eastern Shore.