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Chelsey focuses her practice on environmental and state energy law, providing comprehensive support to clients across various industries. She handles matters involving regulatory enforcement, compliance, permitting, due diligence, and litigation. Additionally, as a member of the firm’s State Energy Regulation practice, she assists clients with proceedings before the Virginia State Corporation Commission.

Chelsey offers strategic advice on the environmental implications of business operations, including managing emerging contaminants like PFAS, within an ever-evolving regulatory landscape to help clients achieve their business objectives. She is also committed to pro bono work, focusing on wrongful convictions.

  • Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch: Environmental Law (2026)

Chelsey focuses her practice on environmental and state energy law, providing comprehensive support to clients across various industries. She handles matters involving regulatory enforcement, compliance, permitting, due diligence, and litigation. Additionally, as a member of the firm’s State Energy Regulation practice, she assists clients with proceedings before the Virginia State Corporation Commission.

Chelsey offers strategic advice on the environmental implications of business operations, including managing emerging contaminants like PFAS, within an ever-evolving regulatory landscape to help clients achieve their business objectives. She is also committed to pro bono work, focusing on wrongful convictions.

  • Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch: Environmental Law (2026)
  • Judicial intern to the Honorable M. Hannah Lauck, U.S. District Judge United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 2021
  • Legal intern, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, 2021-2022
  • Legal intern, Dominion Energy, Summer 2021

Education

  • William & Mary Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2023, with environmental law concentration; notes editor, William & Mary Law Review
  • The Ohio State University, B.A., 2019

Bar Admissions

  • Virginia

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia