Leigh serves as of counsel in the Charlottesville office of McGuireWoods LLP, and as vice president of McGuireWoods Consulting LLC where his practice is now concentrated in the Non-Governmental and Exempt Organizations fields.

Leigh has previously served on the board of visitors and as the legal advisor to the University of Virginia and was a founder of the university’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership. He also held the position of university lecturer in the Law and Darden Graduate Business Schools and is co-author of Virginia Civil Procedure. Leigh has been chairman of the university’s Health Services Foundation; Virginia Health Care Foundation; Charlottesville-Albemarle Chamber of Commerce; Virginia Chamber of Commerce; Senior Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association, and a member of the ABA board of governors. He has also served as a director of the United States Chamber of Commerce; trustee of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello); and president of the University of Virginia Law Association and alumni board of managers. He currently is on the board of the Montpelier Foundation; the UVA White Burkett Miller Council and Foundation for the Study of the Presidency; and is a trustee of the Claude Moore Charitable Foundation. Leigh served on active duty with the United States Navy from 1951-1954 and retired as a Captain USNR.