“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
– Benjamin Franklin

Welcome to Weiss LLP

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Since 1981, Weiss LLP and its attorneys have been assisting local and regional businesses to navigate today’s business challenges. The founding partner of our firm is a seasoned attorney who has worked for national and local firms prior to launching his own practice in 2006. We are a boutique firm, which means most clientele come from closely-held businesses and development companies. Some of our other clientele are nationally-recognized lenders and real estate investment trusts, real estate developers, hotel franchisees, entrepreneurs in hospitality businesses, among others. Also, we have served as counsel to two foreign governments. Other clients of ours include: retailers, a multi-location chain of car washes, parking garage management companies, property management companies, and foreign investors with investments in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area. Our trusted, experienced attorneys have spent years assisting our clients in successful cases and guide them through complicated legal processes. Consulting with us can help you determine how to successfully solve your legal questions. Contact our office today to schedule your consultation.

Practice Areas

Real Estate

This division covers a wide range of real estate transaction types including development, land acquisition and zoning, financing, construction, sales, refinances and leases.

General Counsel Services

Many clients cannot afford to hire a full-time general counsel to service general needs of the business enterprise; our firm provides this function on a part-time or occasional or regular basis. Our services include daily, routine general counsel services such as contract negotiation, human resources, investor reporting and commercial counsel services.

Corporate and Commercial – Mergers and Acquisitions

Weiss LLP provides responsive and comprehensive legal services to entities of all compositions throughout their transactions, applying resources and expertise to the full range of scenarios any business may encounter.

Commercial Business Litigation

Our Firm has provided successful representation to clients in a wide array of business transactions, financing, intra-partner disputes and family business succession plans.

Commercial and Bank Lending

Weiss LLP extends its banking practice to cover commercial lending institutions, as well as lenders and borrowers.

Multi-Family (Apartment) Regulation and Advocacy

Local governments have given tenants the right to form tenant organizations, the right of first refusal to purchase apartment units and created significant administrative filing requirements for licensures, rent control and tenant rights.

Estate Planning – Asset Protection

Weiss LLP offers tailored estate planning solutions that meet client's goals. From the creation of wills and trusts to guardianships, we help protect assets and minimize estate taxes.

Workplace Counsel
Important Pointers For Today's Businesses

When Buying Property in Virginia, Insist on a General Warranty Deed with English Covenants of Title

Of all the paperwork in a real estate closing, the deed itself gets the least attention – everyone is focused on the loan documents, the settlement statement, the inspection report. But the deed is the one document that determines what protection you, the buyer, actually have if a title problem surfaces after closing. In Virginia, not all deeds are created equal, and the difference can matter enormously.

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CHANGING YOUR DOMICILE TO SAVE ON LOCAL TAXES

A guide to leaving a high-tax state — how have you handled “the move”?

Every year, a predictable migration of people who move from the high-taking states of New York, Maryland, California, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, and Massachusetts and relocate into the nine states that currently impose no personal income tax: Florida, Alaska, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming. The tax savings can be real and…

IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, DON’T COUNT ON A LETTER OF INTENT NOT BEING BINDING!

Every deal begins somewhere short of a signed contract. A term sheet, a letter of intent, a memorandum of understanding — call it what you like — is the document parties exchange to memorialize where they have landed before lawyers draft the definitive agreement. The document almost always says, in one form or another, that it is “not binding” and “not enforceable.” Clients treat that sentence as a force field. It is not….

The “Caveat Lessee” Doctrine in Commercial Leasing

Weiss LLP | September 2, 2026

“Caveat lessee” — “let the lessee beware” — is the common-law rule that a commercial landlord makes no implied warranty that leased premises are fit, safe, or suitable for the tenant’s intended use. Absent an express covenant, fraud, active concealment of a latent defect, or a governing statute, a commercial tenant takes the premises as found and bears the risk of their condition and…

Randy Alan Weiss, Esq. Founding Partner

Randy Alan Weiss is the Founding Partner of Weiss LLP. Randy is a law graduate of Georgetown University Center (MLT, 1985) with an emphasis in closely-held business taxation and exempt organizations and St. Louis University School of Law (JD, 1981).
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“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin