Fairfax law firm aids ‘homeless’ dogs at holidays

Summertime and the livin’ is no longer as easy for summer associates at large firms

By Peter Vieth
Published: July 12, 2010
Tags: Law Firms

Once upon a time, large law firms hired large groups of high-achieving second-year law students as summer associates. This group spent the summer bonding with each other, researching memos or writing briefs for different partners, lunching with partners and each other, spending the occasional night at a show with some partners or a day out [...]

Hunton & Williams pro bono office marks 20

By Alan Cooper
Published: July 12, 2010
Tags: Law Firms

More than 6,500 low-income residents in Richmond’s Church Hill neighborhood have received essentially free legal representation over the last 20 years from Hunton & Williams, the Richmond-based legal giant with more than 900 lawyers in 18 offices around the world. The primary beneficiaries of that representation may well be the lawyers who provided it, says [...]

Demanding Diversity

By Alan Cooper
Published: June 7, 2010
Tags: Law Firms

The word “diversity” appears on the home page of major Virginia law firms’ websites. Business needs may be driving that emphasis, as much as moral imperatives. The large corporations that provide the bulk of the work for large firms are demanding “diversity.” Some corporate clients aren’t afraid to use the carrot and the stick. Global [...]

Fifteen lawyers leave LeClairRyan

By Alan Cooper
Published: June 2, 2010
Tags: Law Firms

Fifteen lawyers have left Richmond-based LeClairRyan to form a boutique firm that will specialize in defending financial services companies and targets of Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement actions. The new firm will be called Murphy & McGonigle, with James A. Murphy and Thomas J. McGonigle as co-founders. Murphy will head the litigation group with offices [...]

Gentry Locke presents first Dick Rakes scholarship

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: May 31, 2010
Tags: Law Firms

Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore LLP has presented the first Dick Rakes Kiwanis Scholarship to a 2010 graduate of Northside High School in Roanoke. Mary Ann Nguyen received the $1,500 scholarship at a luncheon last week. The scholarship is based on academic performance, community service and need. Rakes, who retired in 1991 after 40 years [...]