Murphy, James Patrick

Andrea Moseley graduated from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She served as an intern with the District Attorney General’s Office while attending college in Memphis. She received her law degree from Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia. She was an executive editor for the Virginia Capital Case Clearinghouse at Washington and Lee. In the course of her work in the Capital Case Clearinghouse, she and the staff provided support to numerous attorneys involved in death penalty cases that were approaching trial.

She is an accomplished attorney with twelve years of criminal litigation experience and a strong background in complex criminal litigation including: white collar crime, street crime, and investigations in both Federal and State courts. She has a proven record of negotiating complex legal issues with opposing counsel and communicating effectively with clients.

She spent her first four years of practice in the Alexandria Public Defender's Office, which is widely regarded as the best in the Commonwealth. Immediately after her employment with the Alexandria Public Defender’s Office she went into private practice with her own law firm of Leibig, Moseley, and Dillard, P.C. (later Leibig, Moseley, and Bennett, P.C.). In 2005, the Firm merged with the Law Offices of John Kenneth Zwerling, later to become Zwerling, Moseley & Sears, P.C. She was an Instructor of Legal Rhetoric at the American University Washington College of Law for the 2002-2003 school years. In 2005, she won a landmark decision in the Virginia Supreme Court preventing the Attorney General from civilly committing her client, upon the completion of his original sentence, under the Sexually Violent Predator Act. Commonwealth of Virginia v. Richard Bryan Allen, 269 Va. 262, 609 S.E.2d 4 (2005).