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WILLIAMSBURG–The Virginia Bar Association presented its Award for Excellence in Legal Journalism to Virginia Lawyers Weekly and Virginia Business on Jan. 20 at the group’s winter meeting.
The award is given in recognition and appreciation of exceptional legal journalism. In 2010, the VBA presented the award to the Bristol Herald Courier for a Pulitzer Prize-winning [...]

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Virginia Bar Association President Lucia Anna “Pia” Trigiani (right) has been named to the Hall of Fame of the Italian American Business and Professional Societa.
The Societa is a Richmond business group dedicated to promoting relationships between Italian American-owned or related businesses and other companies.
Every five years the organization acknowledges the outstanding contributions made by [...]

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Guy K. Tower, who stepped down last month after six years as executive director of the Virginia Bar Association, has rejoined The McCammon Group.
Tower was a founding member of The McCammon Group in 1995 before leaving in 2003 to become director of judicial education for the Supreme Court of Virginia. He was chosen to [...]

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The law office of B. Cullen Gibson in Norfolk has won the Attorney General’s Cup for raising the most food per person in the fifth annual Legal Food Frenzy.
The frenzy raised more than 1.6 million pounds of food for the state’s food banks in a competition among 177 Virginia law firms and legal departments coordinated [...]

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Yvonne C. McGhee, the executive director of the Fairfax Bar Association since 2000, was named today as the new executive director of the Virginia Bar Association.
In announcing the appointment, VBA President Pia Trigiani said McGhee “possesses a unique and impressive background that combines legal experience and association management with a record of success in membership [...]

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A free telephone CLE seminar will be presented at noon Thursday for attorneys wanting to provide pro bono services for those affected by tornadoes recently in Pulaski, Gloucester and Mathews counties, among other localities.
Those attending the seminar will be asked to volunteer for the emergency legal services disaster program coordinated by the Young Lawyers Conference [...]

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The Supreme Court of Virginia has accepted a proposal by a joint task force of the Virginia State Bar and the Virginia Bar Association that will make it easier for corporate counsel who are not licensed in Virginia to provide pro bono services.
Corporate counsel now can provide such services only in programs operated and controlled [...]

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Young lawyer groups in two statewide bar organizations brought home trophies when the American Bar Association presented its Awards of Achievement at its annual meeting held in San Francisco last month.
The Virginia Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division received first place for its comprehensive programming, which includes such signature projects as the 2009 Virginia Lieutenant Gubernatorial [...]

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Guy Tower will step down as executive director of the Virginia Bar Association in July 2011 after six years in the post.
Tower, who will turn 70 next year, said in a letter to VBA President Steve Busch that he believes “this is an opportune time for transition” for both the association and himself.
Tower cited a [...]

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The Supreme Court of Virginia has asked the Virginia State Bar and the Virginia Bar Association to submit a proposed rule for pro bono practice by corporate counsel.
The request followed comments last month by Randal S. Milch, executive vice president and general counsel of Verizon Communications Inc., about “regulatory impediments” by the Virginia State Bar [...]

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