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Legal Elite 2024: Cybersecurity/Data Privacy/Technology Law
Joseph P. Bowser Roth Jackson Gibbons Condlin Richmond John G. Danyluk Gentry Locke Attorneys Richmond Darius Davenport Crenshaw, Ware & Martin Norfolk Gene Fishel Troutman Pepper Richmond William H. Hall Hancock Daniel Glen Allen C. Andrew Konia McGuireWoods Tysons Stephanie Lauterbach-Diaz Willcox Savage Norfolk Sharon D. [...]
Legal Elite 2024: Legal Services/Pro Bono
Tricia Lund Batson Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia Norfolk Arlene Beckerman Fairfax Bar Association Fairfax Lisa Ann Bennett Central Virginia Legal Aid Society Richmond Sarah Bennett Bures Troutman Pepper Richmond Tara Casey University of Richmond School of Law Richmond Steve Dickinson Central Virginia Legal Aid Society Ri[...]
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 com[...]
Legal Elite 2024: Labor/Employment Law
Faith A. Alejandro Sands Anderson Richmond Zev Antell Butler Curwood Richmond Ryan M. Bates Hunton Andrews Kurth Washington, D.C. Paul G. Beers Glenn Feldmann Darby & Goodlatte Roanoke Amanda Tapscott Belliveau McCandlish Holton Richmond John V. Berry Berry & Berry Reston Lisa Bertini Bertini Law Firm Virginia Beach Anne[...]
Siemens Energy agrees to pay $104M over Dominion bidding scheme
Siemens Energy pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $104 million this week to settle a federal criminal investigation into stealing trade secrets in order to undercut competitors’ bids in 2019 to build a Dominion Energy gas turbine “peaker” power plant in the Richmond metropolitan area. The settlement comes after t[...]
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[...]
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 bo[...]
Student sues U.Va., alleging antisemitism
A Jewish undergraduate student is suing the University of Virginia, its president and rector, and two pro-Palestinian organizations, alleging that he was “a victim of hate-based, intentional discrimination, severe harassment and abuse, and illegal retaliation” at U.Va., according to a federal lawsuit filed May 17. Ma[...]
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 fir[...]
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 — [&[...]
Allen & Allen announces new president
Jason W. Konvicka is succeeding Edward L. Allen as president of Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen, the Richmond-based law firm announced April 11. Konvicka joined the personal injury firm as a trial attorney in 2000 and became a shareholder in 2006. Allen led the firm as president for the past six years and will continue […[...]
Richmond-based attorneys win U.S. Supreme Court case
After nine years and through three U.S. presidents, two Richmond-based attorneys and their client, an FBI agent who also lives in Richmond, received great news Tuesday: They had won their U.S. Supreme Court case against the federal government. Rudisill v. McDonough was decided 7-2 in favor of plaintiff Jim Rudisill, a retired Ar[...]
