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Bradley Marshall

Gainesville Magisterial District

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Bradley Marshall is a shareholder and trial attorney at Vanderpool, Frostick & Nishanian, P.C., in Manassas. He leads the firm’s white collar and criminal defense section, is co-lead for their investigations section, and practices in the municipal law and civil litigation sections. Prior to joining the firm, Brad served as an Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney in Prince William County for over a decade, where he specialized in prosecuting criminal street gang cases, violent crimes, firearms offenses, and mental health-related cases.

He is appointed to the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services board of directors by the Governor and serves as Chairman of the Community Criminal Justice Board. He is the past-President of the Prince William County Bar Association and PWC Bar Foundation. Brad also serves on the Board of Trustees for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Children Intervention Services and the Board of Regents of Leadership Prince William. Additionally, he is a member of the board of directors of the Greater Prince William Chamber of Commerce.

Brad is heavily involved in criminal justice reform at the local and state levels. He serves on the Evidence-Based Decision Making Policy Committee and is a member of the local DIVERT Committee, which focuses on addressing mental illness within the criminal justice system. He also played a key role in establishing and implementing Prince William County's Mental Health Docket.

Brad received his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and his juris doctorate degree from Michigan State University. He is a graduate of Leadership Prince William. Among his many honors, he received the Potomac Local “Forty Under 40” Award in 2014, the County Executive Award in 2015, and was part of the inaugural class of Virginia’s “Up & Coming Lawyers” in 2016. He was named the 2017 Pro Bono Attorney of the Year and recognized as a 2024 “Leader in the Law” by Virginia Lawyers Weekly.

He maintains an “AV-Preeminent” attorney rating, the highest possible rating in both legal ability and ethics, and is regularly featured in the best lawyers editions of Virginia Business Magazine, Northern Virginia Magazine, and Washingtonian Magazine, among others. Brad is also the author of numerous chapters in attorney practice guides and teaches ethics, mental health law, Fourth Amendment law, and other topics to judges and lawyers across the state.