Top Award-Winning Personal Injury Lawyer
40 Years of Experience & Results

Waterman Law Centers, PLLC has worked for decades serving clients who have been harmed by negligence. The fight for justice is important to us, and Waterman Law Centers is dedicated to obtaining the financial compensation our clients deserve. Our personal injury lawyer cares about your situation and wants to help.

Top Award-Winning Personal Injury Lawyer
40 Years of Experience & Results

Waterman Law Centers, PLLC has dedicated years to serving clients who have been harmed by negligence. The fight for justice is important to us, and Waterman Law Centers is dedicated to obtaining the financial compensation our clients deserve. Our personal injury lawyers care about your situation and want to help.

Millions Won For Our Clients

Awards

Waterman Law Centers, PLLC is proud to be honored for the superlative work we do for our clients. 

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Avery T. “Sandy” Waterman, Jr. Esq.

About Us

Waterman Law Centers earned a “Metropolitan Tier 1 Ranking” in the 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 Editions of the U.S. News and Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” Rankings for “Plaintiff Medical Malpractice” and for “Plaintiff Personal Injury” (Auto Accidents). That is because it delivers award-winning big-city/big-firm results for its personal injury and wrongful death clients like you!

Do you want your case handled by an award-winning name partner with 40 years of valuable legal experience – or by a young partner, an associate, or even a law clerk “cutting their teeth” and “learning to practice law”? Experience and proven results make a difference!

I have obtained numerous settlements and verdicts for deserving families, bringing them healing and closure; and am ready to serve your case needs, to fight for you. Let me help you get justice!

No need to travel to Richmond, Norfolk, or Virginia Beach for a “Metropolitan Tier 1” lawyer. Just use one of our convenient offices in Williamsburg, Newport News, or Hampton.

Thank you,

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Avery T. “Sandy” Waterman, Jr. Esq.

Client
Testimonials

Our top priority is the outcomes we achieve for our clients, and we are proud to have helped so many throughout the years. Here are just some of our glowing testimonials.

Confidential

“When I was referred to you, I was told you need a “kick ass” lawyer and the case was like in the book/movie The Rainmaker.”

Cliff D.

“Great job! Congratulations, you hit it ‘out of the park’!”

Areas of Practice

Car
Accidents

For 2022, I was voted “Lawyer of the Year” by my fellow lawyers in Best Lawyers in America – the premier legal honorary in the United States – for “Plaintiff Personal Injury” for the Norfolk (Southeast) Region of Virginia. In fact, for 19 consecutive years from 2007 to 2025, I have been named in Best Lawyers in America for “Plaintiff Personal Injury”. Those recognitions are for my handling of auto accident cases on behalf of crash victims.

Medical
Malpractice

For 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2023, I was voted “Lawyer of the Year” by my legal colleagues in Best Lawyers in America – the premier law practice honorary in the United States – for “Plaintiff Medical Malpractice” for the Norfolk (Southeast) Region of Virginia. In fact, for 19 consecutive years from 2007 to 2025, I have been named in Best Lawyers in America for “Plaintiff Medical Malpractice”. Those recognitions are for my handling of medical malpractice cases on behalf of victim patients.

Specific Types of Car Accidents

Passenger Vehicles

Passenger Vehicles

Passenger vehicles include a wide variety of motor vehicles. While they tend to exhibit safety precautions, they open us to the possibility of injury.

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Commercial Vehicles

Commercial Vehicles

Commercial vehicles can be especially dangerous due to their size, which is why Waterman Law Centers works to help victims of commercial vehicle accidents.

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Specific Areas of Medical Malpractice Focus

Patient Falls

Patient Falls

Falls by hospital patients and nursing facility residents are daily occurrences that usually are the fault of healthcare providers. I successfully have pioneered patient/resident falls as a viable genre of medical malpractice for decades.

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Other Hospital Neglect

Other Hospital Neglect

The two most common types of medical malpractice in hospitals are medication errors and patient falls. I handle both regularly, plus cases of patients receiving inadequate anesthesia and thereby being awake and feeling pain during surgery, and other errors.

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Surgical Errors

Surgical Errors

I have been very successful with wrong site surgery cases, e.g., removing the wrong organ or operating on the wrong body part. I also handle cases of surgeons leaving foreign objects in patients, e.g., surgical needle or surgical gauze. There are other surgery errors too.

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Cutting-Edge Case Examples

Brain imaging

Brain imaging

I employed cutting-edge 3.0 Tesla MRI – most MRIs still are the less-revealing 1.5 Tesla – to neutralize defense expert claims that my brain injury client simply was exaggerating and malingering, obtaining a $6,000,000.00 jury verdict in Gloucester. I reportedly was the first lawyer in any Virginia Circuit Court to introduce brilliant Diffusion Tensor Imaging (“DTI”) into evidence at trial to prove brain injury, obtaining a $3,500,000.00 jury verdict in Newport News…

Incident Investigative Reports

Incident Reports

I established the right of medical malpractice victims to obtain healthcare incident (accident) reports and staff educational/training materials and to use them as evidence at trial. My landmark opinion from the Virginia Supreme Court still stands today and, moreover, continues to be controlling legal authority for patients obtaining and using other types of records about them that healthcare providers inappropriately segregate, withhold, and claim…

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“A jury consists of 12 persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”

Robert Frost

“In Virginia, just 7 jurors decide. But the truth is that your lawyer really matters. A lot – a whole lot!”

Sandy Waterman