CHRISTEN CHURCH, ATTORNEY

Christen Church is the founder of Church Legal, a focused Virginia law firm providing strategic legal counsel to companies, professionals, and business owners. With more than 15 years of experience, Christen advises clients on corporate and transactional matters, healthcare regulatory issues, intellectual property, and business succession and legacy planning for business owners and individuals.

Before founding Church Legal, Christen was a partner at a large, regional law firm with more than 80 attorneys. She created Church Legal to pair sophisticated legal counsel with a more direct and accessible model, one that allows her to understand her clients’ businesses, priorities, and long-term objectives.

Christen’s work has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America®, Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite, Super Lawyer, and Virginia Lawyers Weekly.

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Education & Licensure

  • University of Virginia, BA 2004

  • Washington and Lee University School of Law, JD 2008

  • Admitted to Virginia State Bar 2008

INVOLVEMENT & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Roanoke Bar Association, Immediate Past President 2024-2025, President 2024, President Elect 2023, Secretary/Treasurer 2022, Board Member 2017-2021

  • Roanoke Law Foundation, Law Fellow Class of 2025, Chair 2024-2025, Trustee 2022-2024

  • Virginia Bar Association, Health Care Section Council, Secretary 2025, Member 2020 to present

  • Best Lawyers in America Lists: 2024-2027 Corporate Law; Corporate Governance Law; Administrative/Regulatory Law

  • Church Legal PLLC received a Tier 2 ranking in Administrative/Regulatory Law in Roanoke in the 2025-2026 Editions of Best Law Firms, ranked by Best Lawyers

  • Legal Elite, Virginia Business Magazine, Intellectual Property and Health Law 2018-2025

  • Influential Women of Law, Virginia Lawyers Weekly 2021

  • Super Lawyers, Business & Corporate Law 2026, Super Lawyers Rising Star in Healthcare, Intellectual Property, and Mergers and Acquisitions 2014-2022

  • Go To Lawyer in Business Law, Virginia Lawyers Weekly 2022

  • Fellow, American Bar Association Foundation