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Law 2023: JOHN P. FISHWICK JR.
As founder of Fishwick & Associates, a trial law firm with a focus on personal injury, civil rights and federal criminal law, Fishwick stays busy. He also has a significant profile as a legal expert for the national media, appearing on CNN, MSNBC and Fox Business Network, as well as being quoted by The New […]
Law 2023: WENDY COLLINS PERDUE
“If you are not having fun,” says Perdue, “you are not doing it right.” A longtime leader in legal education, Perdue joined the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center in 1982, ultimately becoming an associate dean. Since 2011, she has been the University of Richmond‘s law dean and specializes in civil procedure, conflict of laws, […]
Government | Politics 2023: RICHARD CULLEN
After spending the majority of his 45-year career at McGuireWoods, Virginia’s largest law firm, senior partner Cullen is now Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s legal counselor. It’s hardly the first time Cullen has worked in the public sector — he served as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia from 1991 to 1993 and was […]
Law 2023: DOUGLAS S. GRANGER
A nearly 40-year veteran of his firm, the second largest in the state, Granger focuses on business transactions, with a specific focus on mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance transactions. He has substantial experience working with both public and private U.K.-based companies in the U.S. as well as multinational acquisitions. He joined then-Hunton & Williams […]
Law 2023: MONICA T. MONDAY
On Jan. 1, Monday became chair of the Gentry Locke Executive Board, which the firm formed this year. She previously served as the firm’s managing partner for 10 years, and K. Brett Marston succeeded her as the firm’s managing partner. The William & Mary undergraduate and law school alumna also heads the firm’s appellate practice. […]
Law 2023: RANDALL S. PARKS
Parks became chair of Richmond-based Hunton Andrews Kurth’s executive committee in April 2022 after nearly 35 years at the firm, which employed just under 200 attorneys in Virginia as of March. A University of Virginia School of Law alumnus who also graduated from U.Va. with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and English literature, Parks previously […]
Law 2023: RISA L. GOLUBOFF
As dean and Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, Goluboff has a deep legacy of scholarship and teaching on U.S. constitutional and civil rights law, especially its historical development in the last century. Her second book, “Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the […]
Law 2023: THOMAS C. INGLIMA
At Willcox & Savage, Inglima’s practice has focused on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and securities transactions, intellectual property, licensing and technology transfers, and general corporate work, including advising corporations on matters of governance. The firm — among Virginia’s 20 largest — has grown in the past year, adding three partners and four associate[...]
Law 2023: VICTOR O. CARDWELL
Cardwell grew up in a family that highly valued education, and after his sister went to law school, so did he. A University of Virginia and Washington and Lee law graduate, Cardwell now is one of the leaders at the state’s fifth largest law firm, which formed in 2022 with the merger of Vandeventer Black […]
Law 2023: CARL TOBIAS
As Williams endowed chair for the University of Richmond School of Law since 2004, Tobias is a prolific writer and scholar, with an emphasis on federal judicial selection. He has authored more than 200 Law Review articles in some of the country’s top law journals, including the Stanford, Columbia, California and Cornell law reviews. He […]
Law 2023: DANIEL C. SUMMERLIN III
A Roanoke native, Summerlin practices law in areas ranging from administrative and regulatory — with an emphasis on environmental law — to labor and employment and litigation, as well as leading the direction of Virginia’s fifth largest law firm. Additionally, he counsels clients on government investigations and white-collar criminal defense. Before Roanoke law firm Woods […]
Law 2023: JONATHAN P. HARMON
In 2017, Harmon became the leader of Virginia’s oldest law firm, which had 266 lawyers in Virginia as of March. A nationally recognized trial lawyer, he brings in millions of dollars representing Fortune 500 companies in bet-the-company litigation actions and has represented giants like DuPont, CSX Transportation and UPS Ground Freight. In the past year, […]
