Rhonda Wilson Paice has spent the past 23+ years representing individuals and companies with many different legal needs, such as the litigation of family law issues (including child custody and visitation, spousal and child support, and property division); the defense of criminal offenses (including felonies, misdemeanors and traffic matters); the review and litigation of commercial disputes; and real estate contract and title matters.
Rhonda was born in Loudoun County and attended Loudoun Valley High School. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Foreign Affairs and earned her law degree from the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond in 1987. During college and law school, Rhonda interned at both the Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney in Loudoun County and the Loudoun County Circuit Court. Rhonda began practicing law as an associate with the largest law firm in Virginia – McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe – at its Tysons Corner office. While at MWBB, her practice area was primarily civil litigation with concentrations in tort defense, warranty and products liability, and commercial and contract claims. Thereafter, Rhonda worked briefly for a small Fairfax County firm specializing in regional medical malpractice defense litigation.
In 1994, Rhonda returned to Leesburg and opened the firm of Paice & Mougin-Boal with her colleague, Christine Mougin-Boal. The firm merged with the law practice of Joe S. Ritenour in 2004 and continues to the present as Ritenour Paice Mougin-Boal & Wexton. The three partners were instrumental in the purchase and renovation of the historic Laurel Brigade building in 2003, which became the firm offices upon completion in 2005. In addition to her law practice, Rhonda is a successful businesswoman with partnership interests in both Marquis Investment Group LLC (the owner of the Laurel Brigade building) and Prosperity Title LLC (a full service title agency she owns with her law partner, Joe Ritenour).
A former president of the Loudoun County Bar Association, Rhonda is admitted to practice in Virginia and the District of Columbia, in all state and federal courts. In 2007, Rhonda joined a select few attorneys and judges when she was appointed by the Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court to serve as an instructor for the Virginia State Bar’s Harry L. Carrico Professionalism Course, the mandatory ethics and professionalism seminar for new lawyers in Virginia. For many years, Rhonda has been active in various outreach programs of the Loudoun County Bar Association, including serving multiple times as the chairperson of its annual Leadership in the Law Summer Camp, a week-long mock trial and team building workshop for rising high school seniors. In 2009, Loudoun Judge Thomas D. Horne and Rhonda were featured in “Virginia is for Good Lawyers”, a video program created by the Virginia State Bar to recognize those in the legal community who give their time to charitable causes.
Although she primarily represents individuals and small corporations, Rhonda occasionally works for larger clients. In 2008 and 2009, she successfully represented the Concerned Citizens of Broadlands before the county Planning Commission and the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors in a major zoning dispute.