Craig

W.

Sampson

Craig W. Sampson is a President & Shareholder at Barnes & Diehl, P.C. in Richmond, Virginia. He handles complex divorce, custody, and support matters in courts throughout the Commonwealth. Before joining Barnes & Diehl, he was the principal of Sampson Law Firm, P.L.C., where he handled family law matters and criminal cases at all levels of the state and federal systems, including successful petitions for writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court. He is a past president of the Metro Richmond Family Law Bar Association. He lectures semi-annually on the Updates in the Law at the Advanced Family Law Seminar hosted by Virginia CLE, and he has presented on multiple occasions at the Bench Bar Conference in Richmond. Craig has published many articles over the years in the Virginia Family Law Quarterly. He was an adjunct professor of Family Law Ethics at the University of Richmond School of Law from 2017 to 2019, and he was a recipient of the 2017 Leader in the Law Award. He currently serves on the Board of Governors for the Family Law Section of the Virginia State Bar. He is also a co-author of the family law treatise known as "Virginia Practice: Family Law -Theory Practice and Forms" which is published annually by Thomson Reuters.