We're not hiring résumés.
We're hiring partners.
PLDR is the kind of firm where people show up in their twenties and stay. The work is interesting, the clients last decades, and everyone stays close to the work. If that sounds like the place to do your work, keep reading.
The honest pitch.
Most law-firm careers pages talk about opportunities and culture and collaboration. We could write that too, but you'd close the tab.
So here's the version we'd want to read: PLDR is a firm in Central and Southern Virginia where the people showed up in their twenties and are still here. Not because nobody else would have them — because the work is interesting, the clients are interesting, and the firm is built around relationships, not cases. The matters last a decade. The clients last longer. The team that takes a matter is usually the same team three years in.
If that sounds like the kind of place you want to do your work — keep reading. If it sounds slow, we're probably not for you, and that's okay too.
We hire for judgment, care, and the willingness to be in this for the long version. Everything else can be taught. The interview is a conversation.
Built around relationships — with clients and each other.
Four things that don't fit
on a job-post bullet list.
Pulled from conversations with attorneys and staff who've been here five, ten, twenty years.
You'll own your matters.
You'll be staffed onto matters as second-chair from week one, not the seventh month. You'll draft, argue, advise, lose, win — and learn how the decisions actually get made. The work moves at the speed you can absorb it.
Relationships compound.
We work with clients across decades — the same family across three generations of trusts, the same contractor across forty-eight projects. The reward of practicing here is watching what your work makes possible over time, not closing the next file.
The firm protects time.
Lunches are off the clock. Fridays are by appointment. Vacations don't get sabotaged by Slack. The work matters. So do the people doing it.
You'll like the place.
One office in downtown Lynchburg — historic brick, arched windows, an actual library. The community is the kind of place where you can build a practice and a life at the same time. Most of us did.
What happens after
you send the note.
Four steps. No gauntlet. Timing varies with our hiring needs — some seasons move faster than others.
You write to us
The form below. A real person reads it — and if there's a potential fit, we reach out.
We talk
A conversation with an executive. About the work, not your résumé. We're trying to see how you think.
A half-day visit
For attorney finalists: half a day at the office with the team you'd join. Lunch with the practice group. A real look.
An honest answer
Offer with terms in writing, or a "not this time" with reasons. Either way, you'll hear it straight.
One office, one team — room to do your best work.
The application
Tell us who you are.
Five short steps. No essay questions, no buzzwords. Answer in the way you'd want us to write back.
In the partners' words
"The reason people stay here is that we made the place worth staying for — and then we kept it that way. That's the whole strategy."The PLDR Team
When you're ready
Come build a practice
over decades.
You'd be joining a firm where the people showed up in their twenties and stayed. We'd love to hear what you'd add to it.
Start the application