Rhona Levine

Whether planning proactively or planning in crisis, my knowledge and years of experience allow me to provide my clients with the tools needed to “navigate the maze” of challenges faced by the elderly and those with special needs. For most of my legal career, I have concentrated my legal practice on Elder Law and Special Needs Planning, Estate Planning and Administration, and advocacy for the elderly and those with special needs, their families, and their caregivers. I also regularly provide traditional estate planning for people of all ages.

I take a holistic approach to my practice, helping find realistic, practical solutions to address legal and other needs of our aging and special needs communities. Drawing on over forty years of substantive legal experience firmly rooted in traditional estate and incapacity planning, and utilizing personal experiences from dealing with many of the same issues within my own family, I am often able to address needs and resolve problems without going to court – unless a guardianship or conservatorship action is needed.  

Ms. Levine is a Past President of the Virginia Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (VAELA), having served on the Board for over a decade, and after serving as a co-chair of its Program and Education Committee. She serves as the vice-chair of the Elder Law and Special Needs Section of the Virginia Bar Association (VBA), and currently co-chairs the Legislative Committees of both VAELA and the VBA Elder Law and Special Needs Section. She has been a member of the Multidisciplinary Panel of the Public Guardianship and Conservatorship Program of the Family Service of the Roanoke Valley since 2003, and has served on the boards of Good Samaritan Hospice, the Adult Care Center of the Roanoke Valley, and on the steering committee of Roanoke’s Elder Justice Alliance. She is a member of the Roanoke Valley Estate Planning Council, and of the Roanoke Chapter of the Virginia Women Attorneys Association (having served as Treasurer of that Chapter for seven years. She has served as Chair of the Board of Community School and as Vice-President of Beth Israel Synagogue, both in Roanoke. She practiced law in Washington, D.C. for two years prior to returning to Roanoke, where she served as Business Manager for her family’s radio station (WROV AM) while starting her own family. She then returned to the practice of law in 1990, and was with the law firm of Coleman & Massey, P.C. in Roanoke from 2003 until it closed in 2019, when she joined OPN Law.