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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: 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[...]
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 […]
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. […]
Kaufman & Canoles names Williamsburg managing partner
Dustin H. DeVore has been named managing partner of Kaufman & Canoles‘ Williamsburg office, effective May 21, the law firm announced. DeVore joined Kaufman & Canoles in 2002 and chairs the firm’s lender representation practice group and the firm’s credit union team. Outside the firm, he serves on the board of directors of the Greater […]
Woods Rogers returns to original name
Call it a strategy of going back to the future — the merged Woods Rogers Vandeventer Black law firm is shortening its name back to its original appellation of Woods Rogers, executives announced Monday. In 2022, Roanoke-based Woods Rogers merged with Vandeventer Black in Norfolk, creating the state’s fifth largest law firm, with more than […]
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 — […]
