David F. “Buddy” Guthrie 
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: October 31, 2011
Halifax attorney David Franklin Guthrie died Oct. 14 at his home. He was 82.
Despite blindness from an early age, “Buddy” Guthrie enrolled at Ferrum College, received an undergraduate degree from Lynchburg College and earned a law degree from Washington and Lee University in 1953.
Mr. Guthrie practiced law in Halifax County for more than 50 [...]
Richard F. Hall Jr.
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: October 3, 2011
Richard Fuller “Dick” Hall Jr., an Accomac lawyer and businessman, passed away at Weatherlea, his home on Onancock Creek, Sunday, Sept. 25. He was 86 years old.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Hall was educated in Brooklyn Public Schools, Accomac School, Fishburne Academy and the University of Virginia. A Navy veteran, he received his law [...]
Simon M. Osnos
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: September 19, 2011
Simon M. Osnos of Potomac, Md., an attorney in Fairfax, died Aug. 18 of cancer.
Mr. Osnos was a graduate of Boston University and Georgetown Law School. After working at the Central International Law Firm in Seoul, Korea, he founded his own firm of Osnos & Associates in 1982, where he practiced law for the past [...]
Elizabeth Pignatello
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: August 23, 2011
Elizabeth Fawn Slack Pignatello, a trademark and securities lawyer who lived in Mount Vernon, died August 7 in a private airplane crash at Warrenton Air Park. She was 39.
Also killed in the crash was the pilot, LTC Shannon Beebe, Ms. Pignatello’s companion.
A native of Washington, D.C., she grew up in Rockford, Mich., and graduated from [...]
Bobbie Jane Denny
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: August 23, 2011
Bobbie Jane Denny, a retired former director of the Fairfax County Law Library, died July 28 at her home on the Mississippi River. She was 63.
A native of Illinois, Ms. Denny graduated from the University of Illinois and the American University law school and also earned master’s degrees in education and in library and [...]
James A. Gammon
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: August 15, 2011
James A. Gammon, a founding partner in the McLean law firm of Gammon & Grange PC, died Aug. 3. He was 74.
A native of Kerokuk, Iowa, Mr. Gammon graduated from the University of Notre Dame and the Georgetown University Law Center.
Mr. Gammon co-founded Gammon & Grange in 1977 and had been of counsel to the [...]
T.C. Lea Jr.
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: August 15, 2011
Thurmond Carlyle Lea Jr., a retired attorney from Orange, died Aug. 5 after a long illness. He was 74.
Mr. Lea was born in Washington, Va., and graduated from Augusta Military Academy, Virginia Tech and the University of Richmond law school. He began practicing law in 1962 and practiced most recently at Lea Law Inc. with [...]
Thomas C. Dawson Jr.
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: August 1, 2011
Thomas Charles Dawson Jr., a partner in the Virginia Beach firm of McHenry, Dancigers, Dawson & Lake PC, died July 20 in Virginia Beach. He was 50.
A native of Baltimore, Mr. Dawson was a graduate of James Madison University and the University of Richmond law school, where he was a member of the Law Review. [...]
Ken V. Geroe
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: August 1, 2011
Ken Vincent Geroe, a former Portsmouth prosecutor and a partner in the Virginia Beach firm of Brydges, Geroe, Rosenblatt & O’Brien PLLC, died July 21 from complications of liver-transplant surgery at the VCU Medical Center in Richmond. He was 56.
Mr. Geroe grew up in the Bayview section of Norfolk, graduated from Norfolk Catholic High School [...]
Haynie S. Trotter
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: July 11, 2011
Haynie S. Trotter, a retired partner in the McLean office of McGuireWoods LLP, died June 13 at Inova Fairfax Hospital from complications of an internal hemorrhage. He was 80.
A native of Clarksville, Mr. Trotter graduated from the College of William & Mary in 1952. He served as an Army infantry officer in the Korean [...]
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