Gentry Locke Senior Counsel Partner Cynthia D. Kinser will be Keynote Speaker as well as a panelist at an upcoming event for attorneys offered by the Virginia State Bar on Friday, October 13, 2017. The “Solo & Small-Firm Practitioner Forum” event takes place at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, Virginia and provides up to seven hours of CLE credit. Justice Kinser’s keynote speech is entitled “Solo and Small Firm Practitioners – Guardians of the Rule of Law.” The Virginia State Bar’s Conference of Local and Specialty Bar Associations is presenting the conference in cooperation with the Supreme Court of Virginia.