PWHD offers a wide range of legal expertise in providing quality legal services to individuals, businesses, financial institutions, and governmental entities.

Since 1954, the trial lawyers at PWHD have successfully prosecuted serious and complex personal injury and wrongful death actions. During the past 25 years, they have won compensation for thousands of asbestos product liability claims and have become national leaders in mass tort litigation. They are also leaders of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association and the Southern Trial Lawyers Association. Today, PWHD’s trial lawyers are at the forefront of personal injury litigation against the manufacturers and suppliers of dangerously defective products and against health care providers and nursing homes for negligence.

The business lawyers of PWHD represent a wide range of clients, from start-up companies to Fortune 500 corporations. These lawyers have nearly half a century of experience in providing sound advice to corporate clients, forming new business entities, selling and acquiring businesses, selling and acquiring real estate, prosecuting and defending commercial litigation, drafting wills and trusts, and administering estates. In August 2003, PWHD was ranked in the top 5 law firms in the Norfolk and Virginia Beach region by Board Members, Inc., in its national listing of "America's Best Corporate Law Firms". 

With a large number of attorneys and even more paralegals and staff, the law firm of PWHD is poised to fight for your legal rights.

Patten, Wornom, Hatten & Diamonstein, L.C. is not content to rest on its past accomplishments but instead continues to grow and offer more services to clients in today’s economy. In 1999 the Firm merged with the law firms of H. Duncan Garnett and Diamonstein & Staley and continues to focus on emerging practice areas such as the internet and information and technology law. Today the Firm has an advanced computer network combining traditional technologies with custom litigation and law practice software. The Firm’s attorneys are more accessible, more responsive, more informed and more efficient than ever before. As law practice changes the attorneys at Patten, Wornom, Hatten & Diamonstein, L.C., are changing to meet the needs of their clients. The Firm remains as committed to serving its clients and the community for the next fifty years as it has been for the past fifty years. We are confident that our expertise and experience can help you achieve your goals.