The VLW Blog

The Fairfax Law Foundation’s Society of Fellows has announced the winners of its first annual Golden Gavel Awards. The Awards were established to recognize the contributions of individuals, organizations and businesses for their leadership and community service. The Golden Gavel Awards dinner will be held at the Country Club of Fairfax on Sept. 20. The [...]

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Troutman Sanders LLP has opened an office in Beijing. The new office is the third in China for the firm, which started a Hong Kong office in 1997 and an office in Shanghai in 2007. With the addition, Troutman has about three dozen lawyers in China. The new office will be led by Allen Shyu, [...]

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A Chesterfield attorney narrowly escaped serious injury Thursday afternoon when a gunman fired a shot at him at his law office across from the Chesterfield County courthouse. David G. DeFazio said he was in the parking lot of the Barnes & Diehl law firm when he saw a man he had opposed in a court [...]

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Five leading attorneys at Richmond’s largest law firms have added their signatures to a letter urging the appointment of Tracy Thorne-Begland, the openly gay Richmond prosecutor rejected for a judgeship by the House of Delegates. “Several of us thought that he should be judged fully on his merits,” said Thurston R. Moore, former chairman and [...]

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Troutman Sanders has prevailed in a court battle where an investment firm charged that bad legal advice caused it to get in trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Supreme Court of Virginia last week refused to hear an appeal of the dismissal of the lawsuit by AIC Inc. against Troutman and firm partner [...]

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Court-appointed lawyers could face disappointment on fees for some cases next month. The money for fee cap waivers is running out again. The budget for the fiscal year that ends in June included $4.2 million for extra pay for court-appointed lawyers in time-consuming cases. The Supreme Court had processed $3.7 million for waiver payments as [...]

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Every year on May 1, Law Day is celebrated throughout the nation. In Fairfax, Law Day means the annual Weiner Roast hosted by Weiner & Spivey PLC. Ed Weiner (left) has been the host with the roast for 12 years, raising funds to benefit the Fairfax Law Foundation. This year was the biggest and the [...]

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Veteran Roanoke lawyer William B. Poff has been honored with the Roger D. Groot Professionalism Award from the Ted Dalton American Inn of Court in Salem. Poff was president of the Virginia State Bar in 1981-82 and is a Master in the American Inns of Court. Poff has been a “role model for lawyers all [...]

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Trent S. Kerns has been elected president of the law firm of Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen. He joins Edward L. Allen and Jason W. Konvicka as the members of the firm’s executive committee. Kerns, who joined Allen & Allen in 1992, manages the firm’s Chesterfield office. He is one of the firm’s 14 partners [...]

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Sands Anderson PC has elected L. Lee Byrd as president of the firm, according to M. Pierce Rucker, immediate past president. Byrd is the former chair of the business and professional litigation practice at Sands Anderson and a member of the firm’s board of directors. He is also active in the government group at the [...]

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