About Edrie A
Edrie A Pfeiffer studied law after an earlier career turn toward public service and management. She earned an LL.M. in Employment and Labor Law from Georgetown University Law Center (1998). Before that she completed a J.D. at Regent University School of Law (1997). Her graduate work includes an M.A. in Business Management and Administration of Justice from Webster University (1982), and she holds a B.S. in Liberal Arts—Pre‑Law from Oregon State University (1980). These academic steps map a steady move into labor and employment issues and into practice in Virginia.
Her early legal work began at the Berg Legal Clinic, where she served as an associate lawyer in 1998. That clinic experience exposed her to client-side representation and to the day-to-day demands of litigation and counseling. She moved on to the Law Office of Martin Garfinkel in 2001, again as an associate. Two years later she became a partner at Garfinkel and Pfeiffer, PC, helping to run a small firm and handle a variety of civil matters.
In 2007 she took a management post at Hampton Roads Legal Services. In that role she combined supervisory responsibilities with casework. Colleagues recall her steady approach to organization and to handling appeals and administrative claims. Her practice has involved litigation and administrative advocacy, and she has appeared in cases in Virginia and in filings before the Fourth Circuit.
Pfeiffer’s LL.M. in Employment and Labor Law is among the clearest indicators of her substantive interest. She has handled employment-related disputes, workplace claims, and matters that intersect with public benefits and administrative law. The record of positions she has held—clinic associate, small‑firm partner, and managing lawyer at a community legal services office—points to experience on both individual client representation and in supervising broader programmatic legal work.
Her professional path shows an attorney who moved from clinic practice into private practice and then into a leadership role in nonprofit legal services. That trajectory has required courtroom work, administrative advocacy, and office management. She is licensed to practice in Virginia and files matters before the Fourth Circuit when appeals are necessary.
As of 2026 she remains at Hampton Roads Legal Services, where she oversees legal work and handles employment and labor matters and related civil legal services for clients in Virginia.
