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Legal Elite 2024: Young Lawyers
Kate B. Adams KPM Law Roanoke Rachel W. Adams ThompsonMcMullan Richmond Brandon S. Allred Kaufman & Canoles Norfolk Matthew T. Anderson Williams Mullen Richmond John Baker Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers Norfolk Yolanda Beasley Invictus Law Virginia Beach Clark J. Belote Kaufman & Canoles Norfolk Caitlyn M. Bender McCandlish Lillard Leesburg Laura M. Berry Harman Claytor […]
Legal Elite 2024: Real Estate/ Land Use
John C. Altmiller Jr. Altmiller Melnick DeMers Steele & Rosati Tysons Pamela S. Belleman Troutman Pepper Richmond Carl H. Bivens Troutman Pepper Richmond R. Edward Bourdon Jr. Sykes, Bourdon, Ahern & Levy Virginia Beach Jordan K. Bowman Litten & Sipe Harrisonburg James C. Brennan Reed Smith McLean Kathryn N. Byler Pender & Coward Virginia Beach […]
Legal Elite 2024: Administrative/ Government/ Legislative Q&A Pamela Y. O’Berry
Legal Elite 2024 Q&A is sponsored content. Title: Counsel Other legal specialties: Advising governmental entities across Virginia Education: Shippensburg University, bachelor’s degree; American University, law degree Career mentors: I’ve been fortunate to have many wonderful mentors who genuinely cared about my career and guided me along the way. They include Judge Gerald Bruce Lee[...]
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 […]
Legal Elite 2024: Labor/ Employment Law Q&A Sharon Goodwyn
Legal Elite 2024 Q&A is sponsored content. Title: Counsel Education: Bachelor’s degree in economics, Harvard University; law degree, University of Virginia School of Law Family: I have been married to S. Bernard Goodwyn for 39 years. He is currently the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. We have two adult children, Sam and […]
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: 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 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: 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: 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[...]
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 […]
Appeals court reverses $2B judgment for Appian
The corporate espionage civil case between rivals Appian and Pegasystems is heading back to court, the Virginia Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The three-judge panel ordered a new trial, saying that Appian was improperly relieved of the burden of proving that Pega financially benefited from misappropriating Appian’s trade secrets. In May 2022, McLean cloud computing […]
