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Profits follow culture at Williams Mullen
Williams Mullen is having a good decade. In the past 10 years, the Richmond law firm has seen its annual revenues swell from $106 million to $171 million and its annual profits have risen by 11.2%. What’s more, the firm’s president, CEO and chairman of the board, Calvin W. “Woody” Fowler Jr., is bullish on […]
Breaking the rules
For lawyers, time has always been money, which has made the billable hour standard practice for the profession since the 1960s. But with the rise of artificial intelligence, which already can cut the time required to complete rote tasks from days or hours down to seconds, a once-inconceivable event just might come to pass — […]
Resetting the bar
Two venerable Virginia law firms — Roanoke’s Woods Rogers PLC and Norfolk’s Vandeventer Black LLP — combined forces in July 2022, creating the state’s fifth largest firm, Woods Rogers Vandeventer Black PLC, based in Roanoke. It’s a true statewide firm, with branch offices in Norfolk, Richmond, Lynchburg and Charlottesville, in addition to locations in Kitty […]
Va. Bar Association installs 2023 president
Benjamin D. Leigh became the 2023 president of the Virginia Bar Association on Jan. 22, the Richmond-based professional association announced Thursday. With a practice focused on real estate, Leigh is a principal at Leesburg-based Troxell Leigh PC, which he co-founded as Mims, Atwill & Leigh PC in 2002. Before that, he worked with the Fairfax […]
Legal review
In law firms across Virginia, power is now definitely on the side of individual attorneys, who can command larger salaries and other perks so long as they’re willing to cope with heavier workloads. As demand for legal services has soared, the number of lawyers available to perform that work has slumped, leaving even the most […]
The 22nd edition of the Virginia Business Legal Elite
Launched in cooperation with the Virginia Bar Association in 2000, Virginia Business’ Legal Elite polls lawyers licensed to practice in Virginia each year, asking them to identify which of their peers are the top attorneys across 20 categories of legal specialties. In compiling this year’s Legal Elite, Virginia Business contacted more than 14,000 attorneys and […]
2021 Corporate Counsel
Daniel G. Bloor CarMax Inc. Richmond Ryan Boggs Dominion Energy Inc. Richmond N. Reid Broughton Sands Anderson PC Christiansburg Carlos M. Brown Dominion Energy Inc. Richmond Joseph Hannah Carpenter IV Norfolk Southern Corp. Norfolk Nicholas Conte Carilion Clinic Roanoke Andriana Shultz Daly Indivior Chesterfield County Lauren R. Darden Wharton Aldhizer & Weaver PLC Harrisonburg Shani [&hell[...]
