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P.I. firm offers accident guide phone app

By Alan Cooper
Published: March 31, 2011
Tags: Law Firms, Personal Injury, Technology

For years, the personal injury firm of Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen has provided a glove compartment guide with information about what to do after a traffic accident. Welcome to 2011. Another guide is now available as My Lawyer – Travels with Me, a free application for the iPhone and Android smartphones. Accidents and their [...]

Honoring law librarian Barbara Cumming

By Deborah Elkins
Published: March 7, 2011
Tags: Law Firms

A Northern Virginia law firm has honored Barbara Cumming, its former law librarian with a grant to the Virginia Association of Law Libraries. The McLean office of Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald LLP, decided to honor Cumming, who died June 5, 2010, with a grant for continuing education. Senior partner Robert K. Cox formally presented [...]

Richmond’s Durrette and Crump firms merge

By Alan Cooper
Published: February 8, 2011
Tags: Law Firms

The Richmond law firms of Durrette Bradshaw PC and McSweeney, Crump, Childress & Temple PC have merged to form the firm of DurretteCrump PLC. The firm will have 27 lawyers with offices on the 16th floor of the Bank of America Building at 1111 E. Main St. The senior partners in the new firm, Wyatt [...]

Odin, Feldman & Pittleman merges with Zell Law

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: January 4, 2011
Tags: Law Firms

The Fairfax firm of Odin, Feldman & Pittleman PC has merged with Zell Law, an estate and business planning boutique, effective Jan. 1. The merged firm will operate as Odin, Feldman & Pittleman PC with about 55 attorneys. Wayne M. Zell, founder and president of Zell Law, said the merger will allow his former firm [...]

Lawyer blogs draw fans, foes and a few clients

By Peter Vieth
Published: December 6, 2010
Tags: Law Firms, Legal Marketing, Social Media, Technology

Lawyers who blog – whether to boost business or for personal satisfaction – like having the online outlet. Directly or indirectly, blogging can improve the bottom line. Keeping up the pace of posting, however, may require a good dose of self-discipline or even external encouragement, many bloggers say. A blog – the word derives from [...]

Virginia law firms are hiring, but at lower pay and in lower numbers

By Alan Cooper
Published: November 22, 2010
Tags: Law Firms, Law Schools, New Lawyers

New lawyers entering the job market are still having a rough time finding full-time legal work. The results from our annual New Associates’ Salary Survey are in, and the picture isn’t great, but at least it’s better than last year. The hiring profile of Reed Smith LLP, the Pennsylvania-based international law firm with offices in [...]

Firm specializes in cases with numerous claimants

By Alan Cooper
Published: November 3, 2010
Tags: Law Firms

Orran Brown needed to find a lot of people with elementary legal skills quickly. His firm, BrownGreer LLC in Richmond, had been hired by Kenneth Feinberg, administrator of the fund set up to compensate victims of the BP oil spill, to process and analyze the losses that those victims claimed. Within weeks of taking on [...]

No malpractice claim from late transcript

By Alan Cooper
Published: September 17, 2010
Tags: Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn, Law Firms, Legal Malpractice, Supreme Court of Virginia News

McGuireWoods LLP cannot be held liable for legal malpractice because it failed to timely file the transcript in an appeal of an $8.3 million verdict against the Wintergreen ski resort, the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled Sept. 16. The Supreme Court dismissed the original appeal in 2005 because of the failure to timely file the [...]

Law firm faces Fair Debt claim

By Deborah Elkins
Published: August 23, 2010
Tags: Consumer Protection, Federal Courts, Judge James C. Cacheris, Law Firms, Real Estate

A law firm trying to collect dues for a homeowners association may face trial after an Alexandria federal judge refused to dismiss claims under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Homeowner Maria Sunga alleged that Rees Broome PC made “false statements” in two collection letters and a warrant in debt the law firm filed in [...]