The Law Office of Clement & Wheatley

R. Lee Yancey

Practice Concentration: Commercial Real Estate; Health Law; Business Law; Commercial Law; Corporate Law; Commercial Transactions; Buying and Selling of Businesses; Economic and Industrial Development.

Admitted to Bar: 1976, Virginia.

Law School: Wake Forest University, J.D., magna cum laude, 1976.

College/University: Wake Forest University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1974.

Membership: Danville (Treasurer, 1978; Vice-President, 1990; President, 1991-1992), Virginia and American Bar Associations; Virginia State Bar; American Health Lawyers Association, Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys.

Personal: Born Danville, Virginia, August 10, 1952.

Listings: Named in multiple issues of Virginia Business magazine as one of Virginia's "Legal Elite" in the category of Business Law; listed in The Best Lawyers in America.

Biography: A Danville native, Lee Yancey is a magna cum laude graduate of Wake Forest University and a magna cum laude graduate of Wake Forest University Law School, where he finished first in his class academically and was Associate Editor of its Law Review. Lee Yancey enjoys a diverse practice, handling the law firm's commercial real estate, business, industrial development, health care and corporate law. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at Averett College and Danville Community College, teaching business law and other law related courses. Lee is married to the former Deborah Haar of Danville. Together they have three children.