William L. Babcock, Jr.

William L. Babcock, Jr. graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1969 and from the George Washington University School of Law, with honors, in 1972. He is rated as “AV” in the areas of estate planning and administration, the highest designation available to attorneys in the Martindale-Hubbell® Law Directory. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America’s top one percent of lawyers in the region in the 2008 through 2019 editions. Mr. Babcock has been a faculty participant at Virginia State Bar continuing legal education seminars on topics such as “Handling Problem Assets,” “Ethical Issues in Advising a Fiduciary,” “Tax Saving Trusts” and “Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts.” Mr. Babcock was a member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Virginia State Bar for Alexandria from 1992 through 1998 (Secretary +1-703-518-8400, Chair +1-703-518-8400. He served on the Virginia State Bar Standing Committee on Lawyer Discipline from 2002 to 2008 (Chair +1-703-518-8400. He is a member of the Alexandria Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar (Trusts & Estates section), and a Fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation.

Community service by Mr. Babcock has included serving on the Hospice Cup Sponsor’s Committee for the Hospice of Northern Virginia, assisting the Alexandria Seaport Foundation, coaching youth soccer, serving as President of the Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center, as a director of the Jubilee Support Foundation in Adams Morgan, as Chair of the Governance Committee of the Advisory Board of the Alexandria Community Trust and helping cook dinners at the Carpenter’s Shelter with the Christ Church outreach program. He is a member of the Leadership Washington Class of 1991.