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Legal Elite 2024: Immigration Law Q&A Radlyn Mendoza and John Gardner
Legal Elite 2024 Q&A is sponsored content. Title: Co-founders Other legal specialties: Business and family immigration Education: Seton Hall University School of Law Family: We have three amazing daughters! Career mentors: Jim Tom Haynes and Keith Kimball, and both of our dads, Conrado Mendoza and James Gardner Hobbies: For Radlyn, travel & food; John: running, […]
Legal Elite 2024: Family Law/ Domestic Relations Q&A Kimberly Phillips
Legal Elite 2024 Q&A is sponsored content. Title: Owner Other legal specialties: Certified guardian ad litem Education: Bachelor’s degree, Old Dominion University; master’s of elementary education, Campbell University; law degree, Regent University Family: Spouse, Jimmy Phillips, and children Austin and Faith Phillips Career mentors: I consider all my peers to have mentored me al[...]
Legal Elite 2024: Criminal Law Q&A Daniel J. Miller
Legal Elite 2024 Q&A is sponsored content. Title: Owner Other legal specialties: Family Law (Divorce, Custody, Support etc.) and serious personal injury cases and medical collections Education: Bachelor’s degree, Emory University; law degree, Western Michigan Law School Family: Two children who attend Tulane University and Pace University in New York City Career mentors: My father, [&h[...]
Legal Elite 2024: Civil Litigation Q&A Bill O’Mara Jr.
Legal Elite 2024 Q&A is sponsored content. Title: Partner/Attorney Other legal specialties: Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers exclusively represents people injured by the negligence of others with a focus on catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases arising from car, truck and motorcycle accidents. I also have experience representing people injured by negligent businesses and the government. [&h[...]
Legal Elite 2024: Civil Litigation Q&A Michael K. Kim
Legal Elite 2024 Q&A is sponsored content. Title: Shareholder Other legal specialties: Limited liability company disputes, shareholder disputes, fiduciary litigation, trusts and estates litigation and general commercial litigation Education: Bachelor’s degree, Columbia University; law degree, University of Miami School of Law Family: Wife, Rebecca Wyckoff Kim; four daughters, Mia, Lorele[...]
Legal Elite 2024: Business Law Q&A Jonathan T. Blank
Legal Elite 2024 Q&A is sponsored content. Title: Partner and energy industry team co-chair; former chair of business and securities litigation; former Charlottesville office managing partner Other legal specialties: As a trial lawyer, complex matters are my specialty. As a problem solver, not a problem creator, the more complex the better. Education: Bachelor’s degree, University [&hell[...]
Ex-Richmond Fed examiner pleads guilty to insider trading
A former Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond examiner on Tuesday pleaded guilty to committing insider trading and making false statements about his trading to the Richmond Fed. Robert Brian Thompson, 43, of Chesterfield County’s Moseley area, was an examiner and senior manager with supervisory duties for the Richmond Fed, where he worked from 2004 through about […]
Virginia 500: The 2024-25 Power List
Who are Virginia’s most powerful and influential leaders in business, government, politics and education this year? Find out in the fifth annual edition of the Virginia 500: The 2024-25 Power List. Read more about how we assembled the Virginia 500 from our editor. Executives are listed in alphabetical order by industry. Below you will find links […]
2024 Virginia 500: Law
FARHAD AGHDAMI MANAGING PARTNER, RICHMOND OFFICE, WILLIAMS MULLEN, RICHMOND JEFFREY A. BREIT PARTNER, BREIT BINIAZAN, VIRGINIA BEACH ROBERT P. BEAMAN III VIRGINIA BEACH OFFICE MANAGING PARTNER, TROUTMAN PEPPER HAMILTON SANDERS, VIRGINIA BEACH DAVID C. BURTON REGIONAL MANAGING PARTNER FOR HAMPTON ROADS, WILLIAMS MULLEN, VIRGINIA BEACH V[...]
All eyes on noncompetes
EDITOR’S NOTE: On Aug. 20, a federal judge in Texas ruled against the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on noncompete agreements, which was scheduled to go into effect Sept. 4. In striking down the FTC’s pending rule, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown called it “arbitrary and capricious” and an “unlawful agency action.” An FTC spokesperson said […]
JENNIFER WEST
Ever since she was a child, Jennifer West knew she wanted to be a lawyer. “I always felt like advocating for others was going to be my calling,” she says. And now she serves as president at Richmond-based Spotts Fain, where she also heads up the law firm’s pro bono practice and community outreach activities. […]
JILL VOGEL
Jill Vogel thought that her clerkship in political law would “merely be a short indulgence,” and then she’d go back to “real work.” But it turned out that she loved that area of the law more than insurance, family and criminal law, and now the former state senator has dedicated her entire career to it. […]
