Decades of combined experience to handle your every legal need.

A Full-Service Firm For Your Core Legal Needs

Kidwell & Kent is a family-owned law firm with over 60 years of having the honor to serve the DC Metro Region. Our long-standing firm offers a broad array of legal services to advance and protect the interests of our clients. We strive to do so with the utmost professionalism and integrity — targeting positive results and maximum cost-efficiency. Equally important, we are committed to serving each person who puts his or her trust in us with genuine care, respect and compassion.

A Broad Range Of Legal Services

Our mission is to provide efficient legal counsel for clients in a wide range of legal disciplines that are of common value to individuals, families and small to medium businesses. Our attorneys can help you address nearly any legal concern, directly, or through our professional partnerships.

But With a Focus

Our goal is to deliver a comprehensive wealth plan married to your individual estate, and if applicable, business development and succession plan, that empowers you to achieve your most valued goals and retire with true financial confidence. We focus our legal expertise and professional relationships on growing your financial life or business, providing lasting assurance that your future and the legacy you leave for your loved ones is secure.

How We Deliver

At Kidwell & Kent, we have designed our firm and developed our professional partnerships to deliver highly experienced counsel in the areas that you and your business need.

OUR FIRM’S 6 PILLARS OF SUPPORT DESIGNED FOR YOUR SUCCESS! 

As a general legal practice for over 50 years, The Law Offices of Kidwell & Kent is a Law Firm Designed For the American Family by:

Demonstrating Excellence In A Range Of Practice Areas

At The Law Offices of Kidwell & Kent, our experienced attorneys and a highly professional, courteous legal staff focus every working day on rewarding our clients’ confidence in us. We are counselors as well as adept negotiators and proven trial lawyers, focused on accomplishing our clients’ goals in practice areas that include:

Estate Planning
& Probate

Estate Planning
& Probate

Wills
& Trusts

Wills
& Trusts

Gifting And
Philanthropy

Gifting And
Philanthropy

Real Estate:
Commercial & Residential

Real Estate:
Commercial & Residential

Business & Corporate Law
Business & Corporate Law
Misdemeanor & Felony
Criminal & Traffic
Misdemeanor & Felony
Criminal & Traffic
Personal Injury
& Malpractice

Personal Injury
& Malpractice

Wealth, Legacy &
Charitable Trust Planning

Wealth, Legacy &
Charitable Trust Planning

Customized Services That Meet Your Goals

Our estate planning and administration services range across all levels of complexity and unique family needs. Our real estate settlement practice is enhanced by our clients’ access to an in-house, FULL SERVICE TITLE COMPANY. Business clients turn to us for insightful, upfront formation counsel, ongoing legal advisory services, and tenacious representation when contract disputes or other litigation matters arise.

How Can You Proceed With Confidence?

Get in touch with one of our skilled lawyers. Whether your current needs call for a Fairfax estate administration lawyer, a Rockville contract attorney or a skilled adviser in any other legal area, we encourage you to contact our Virginia law firm to request a consultation. Call us in Fairfax (703-988-7429) or Rockville (301-264-7185) today.

We will address your concerns, commit to your cause and do everything possible to become your lawyers for life – all in comfortable, welcoming surroundings where you can feel at ease.

  • The average person is concerned with leasing or purchasing real estate: we can help!
  • The average person dies and needs a plan for the passage of their assets: we can help!
  • The average person or someone in their family might get a ticket we can help!
  • The average person is at risk of injury, and should that happen: we can help!
  • The average family comprises of adult children with aging, elderly parents: we can help!
  • Unfortunately, many families struggle with dependents with special needs: we can help!

Kidwell & Kent is Designed For Your Family and Your Business to Thrive

  • Many families don’t know how or where to invest for a secure retirement: we can help!
  • The average person feels overwhelmed with the tax code and tax planning: we can help!
  • If you are starting a business: we can help!
  • If your business is expanding and experiencing growing pains: we can help!
  • If you need to set up business operating agreements, executive pay, or employee benefits: we can help!
  • If you need to sell your business and don’t know where to start: we can help!

MORE ABOUT THE FIRM & ITS OWNER JOHN KIDWELL

Our Law Firm has been in operation, with varying partners and owners, since the 1960s. While the firm has always had many partners and associates, the firm itself is family owned.

Owner, and managing Partner, John Kidwell, took over operations of the firm in 2005. He would have to petition the Supreme Court of Virginia to practice law prior to graduating law school, at the age of 24, when his father, H. Kent Kidwell, suddenly collapsed from heart failure and into a coma.

Mr. Kidwell learned from the financial fallout caused by this unplanned health crisis in the family and on the business. At the same time, many of our clients who worked with us through our In-House Title Company, Old Dominion Title Services, began to suffer the consequences of the Great Recession and were facing foreclosure or short sales.

Against this backdrop, Mr. Kidwell partnered with Long and Foster Realtors to develop a subsidiary, Platinum Group Services, to lay the legal framework for a multi-state short sale prosecution apparatus that pioneered the successful negotiation of real estate short sales across the country, saving thousands of families from foreclosure.

Mr. Kidwell also procured his Life Health and Annuities, Series 7 and Series 66 Securities Licenses to provide individual and business wealth and legacy planning services to our clients.

As Mr. Kidwell re-designed the firm, he did so with an aim to provide courteous and efficient counsel in the areas that matter most and are at the core of many families and their business concerns.
We maintain the tradition of being able to call your law firm for more than one special niche, and feel well counseled in the right course of action.

Most of all, we believe that we are here to serve our community, and feel honored to have the opportunity to counsel our clients for over half a century.

We believe this is why the Law Firm of Kidwell & Kent has been so blessed to be peer nominated and awarded numerous times as a Top Family, Estate and Wealth Planning Firm for many years running.

 

Practice Areas

Photo of the books by John Kidwell

Educational Books

By John Kidwell, Owner & Managing Partner

John Kidwell, owner and managing partner of Kidwell & Kent, has written a number of books that are extremely helpful to many of his clients. Quick reads, his books are designed to help you better understand specific areas of law, through clear and concise explanations. Some are downloadable here for free, and others are available on Amazon.