LEGAL SERVICES/PRO BONO

Title: Member

Other legal specialties: Intellectual property; data privacy and security

Birthplace: Norfolk

Education: Bachelor’s degree, Hollins College; law degree, University of Baltimore School of Law; MBA, University of Baltimore Merrick School of Business

Spouse: Eley Duke

Children: Parker, 13; and E, 6

First job as a lawyer: Associate at Kaufman & Canoles

Recently read book: “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway

Career mentors: David Delpierre, Scott Seymour, Scott Oostdyk

You are co-chair of the Virginia Bar Association Pro Bono Council. What are some of its projects? The VBA Pro Bono Council seeks to promote greater participation by lawyers in pro bono work. Through its Firms in Service initiative, groups of law firms around the commonwealth seek to tackle specific needs in their communities, including coordination with legal aid providers to cover areas with a high volume of cases, such as uncontested divorce, developing programs for areas emerging concern, such as eviction, and exploring innovative approaches from nontraditional perspectives, such as medical legal partnerships.

What else needs to be done to provide more legal services to underserved groups? If every lawyer in Virginia met the aspirational goal in Rule 6.1 of devoting 2% of professional time to providing pro bono services, we could significantly narrow the justice gap.

Legal Services/Pro Bono list

Gary Bryant
Willcox Savage PC
Norfolk

L. Lee Byrd
Sands Anderson PC
Richmond

Tara Casey
University of Richmond School of Law
Richmond

Doris Causey
Central Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc.
Richmond

Steve Dickinson
Central Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc.
Richmond

Jennifer Fulmer
Legal Services of Northern Virginia
Fairfax

Nicole J. Harrell
Kaufman & Canoles PC
Norfolk

Brad Jones
Odin, Feldman & Pittleman PC
Reston

Kristi Kelly
Kelly Guzzo PLC
Fairfax

Alton Knighton
Woods Rogers PLC
Roanoke

Nora Mahoney
Legal Services of Northern Virginia
Fairfax

Henry W. McLaughlin
The Law Office of Henry McLaughlin PC
Richmond

David Mercer
MercerTrigiani
Alexandria

Robert L. O’Donnell
Vandeventer Black LLP
Norfolk

Marcel Slag
Legal Aid Justice Center
Richmond

James Weinberg
Hirschler
Richmond

John E. Whitfield
Blue Ridge Legal Services Inc.
Harrisonburg

Tameeka M. Williams
Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia
Norfolk

Kathleen Wright
Gentry Locke Attorneys
Roanoke