Virginia Lawyers Weekly

Two attorneys have joined the law firm of Sands, Anderson, Marks & Miller.

Tania M. L. Saylor has joined the business and professional litigation practice team in the firm’s McLean office. Saylor focuses her practice on commercial and tort litigation, and on professional liability including malpractice defense. She previously practiced with Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP.

Saylor earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia and her law degree from George Washington University. She currently serves on the Board of the Fairfax Bar Association Young Lawyers Section.

Thomas L. Bowden Sr. has joined the business, finance and real estate practice group as counsel. Bowden will counsel corporate clients, their executives, owners and investors about formation, financing, contracts, agreements, leases, trade arrangements and growth through mergers and acquisitions.

He earned his undergraduate degree at Princeton University and then earned his law degree and his M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, completing both degrees simultaneously.

Bowden was co-founder of the Greater Richmond Technology Council. He is an avid outdoorsman and wildlife photographer.

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The Richmond Criminal Bar Association has elected its new executive board:
• Rich Johnson, President, Office of the Public Defender
• Dean C. Marcus, Vice President, Marks & Harrison
• Ann Cabell Baskervill, Secretary, Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney
• Susan Parrish, Treasurer, Bowen, Champlin, Carr, Foreman & Rockecharlie

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M. Christine Klein of Hunton & Williams LLP has been promoted to counsel status. As a member of the firm’s global competition practice group, Klein focuses on antitrust matters, franchising and distribution disputes, business torts, intellectual property, general civil litigation and appellate advocacy. Klein is based in the firm’s Richmond office. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Virginia.

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David M. Zobel, an attorney with Huff, Poole & Mahoney PC, has been elected president of the Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Virginia for a two-year term.

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Keith Denslow has joined the Virginia Beach law firm of Inman & Strickler PLC. His practice focuses on personal injury and wrongful death cases.

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Edwin N. Wilmot has been selected to serve as the Gloucester County Attorney. Wilmot previously served as city attorney for the City of Hopewell. He received his law degree in 1986 from the College of William and Mary and his undergraduate degree in 1983 from Radford University.

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Dale G. Mullen has been hired to serve as the Louisa County Attorney. Mullen was previously chief prosecutor and assistant attorney general for the Office of the Attorney General. He earned his undergraduate degree from Bluefield College and his law degree from the University of Richmond.

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Wallace B. Wason Jr. has joined the law firm of Jones, Blechman, Woltz & Kelly as a partner in the litigation group, where he will continue his practice as a trial lawyer with special emphasis on medical malpractice, serious injury and wrongful death cases. He will practice from the firm’s Newport News and Williamsburg offices. Wason is a graduate of the College of William & Mary and the University of Georgia law school.

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The Nature Conservancy, an international conservation organization, recently presented Willcox & Savage attorney Wiley F. Mitchell Jr. , with its Oak Leaf award during its annual meeting in Vancouver. The Oak Leaf award is given once every two or three years to an individual whose volunteer efforts have contributed significantly to the cause of conservation. Mitchell received the award because of his effective pro bono representation of the wildlife and conservation interests of the Nature Conservancy in Virginia’s first wind farm case.

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Patricia Bugg “P.J.” Turner has joined Spotts Fain as an associate in the litigation section of the firm’s Richmond office. Turner was previously in private practice in Richmond. Her practice focuses in products liability and toxic torts defense and commercial litigation. She received her undergraduate degree from Davidson College in 2003 and her law degree from Loyola University in 2006.

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Shannon E. Sinclair has been named University of Richmond’s first in-house general counsel. She was previously the senior vice president and general counsel of Inova Health Systems in Fairfax. Sinclair has also worked as an associate with McGuireWoods and as assistant legal counsel to the George Washington University Medical Center.
Sinclair earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She later earned her master’s degree from Harvard University. Her experience includes non-profit, employment, privacy, tax, contracting, litigation, real estate, land use and regulatory compliance law.

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