Marina G. Batalias

Associate

804.917.3032

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Overview
Awards

Marina works on the firm’s Consumer Financial Services team, where she represents clients across a wide range of litigation matters in both state and federal court as well as arbitrative bodies. She has served as second chair in a federal jury trial, cross-examining witnesses and arguing motions and jury instructions to favorable verdict, and regularly assists clients throughout all phases of litigation, including pleadings, discovery, dispositive motions, trial, and appeal. Before joining the firm, Marina built a litigation practice focused on products liability, automotive, mass tort litigation, and FELA defense.

  • Virginia Super Lawyers “Rising Star” Civil Litigation: Defense (2024-2025)
Overview

Marina works on the firm’s Consumer Financial Services team, where she represents clients across a wide range of litigation matters in both state and federal court as well as arbitrative bodies. She has served as second chair in a federal jury trial, cross-examining witnesses and arguing motions and jury instructions to favorable verdict, and regularly assists clients throughout all phases of litigation, including pleadings, discovery, dispositive motions, trial, and appeal. Before joining the firm, Marina built a litigation practice focused on products liability, automotive, mass tort litigation, and FELA defense.

Awards
  • Virginia Super Lawyers “Rising Star” Civil Litigation: Defense (2024-2025)

Top areas of focus

  • Member, Young Lawyers Steering Committee, Defense Research Institute
  • Member, Richmond Bar Association
  • Member, Metropolitan Richmond Women’s Bar Association
  • Extern, The Honorable John Gibney, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, 2019
  • Intern, Supreme Court of Virginia, Office of the Chief Staff Attorney, 2018

Education

  • University of Richmond School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2020, The Order of the Barristers; CALI  Awards in Evidence, Federal Courts, First Amendment Law, and Criminal Procedure; Moot Court Board; senior manuscripts editor, Public Interest Law Review
  • University of Virginia, B.A., 2016, history

Bar Admissions

  • Virginia

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit