The Library

  May 25, 2017 – Gentry Locke was pleased to be a Ruby and Red Carpet Sponsor for the 2017 American Heart Association “Go Red for Women” luncheon, which was held at The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center. Gentry Locke’s Managing Partner Monica Monday co-chaired the event and conveyed a moving, personal connection to heart disease in her speech to attendees. In addition to learning about heart attacks and eating heart-healthy, delicious food, a fashion show featured models who are health care workers serving on the front lines of traumatic heart issues. Shown are some of images of this very red, […]

ROANOKE, Va. (May 19, 2017) – Gentry Locke is pleased to announce it has been named Best Law Firm in Southwest Virginia by Virginia Living in the 2017 Best of Virginia issue, published on May 18. This year marks the first time the firm has been named to the list. Virginia Living’s sixth annual Best of Virginia issue is a guide of all that is ‘best’ in Virginia. More than 1,500 winners from the annual Best of Virginia Readers’ Survey are featured in 106 categories covering the best in arts, culture & entertainment, living & recreation, shopping, services and food & […]

  Once again, Gentry Locke attorneys and staff have demonstrated their generosity and love of a great charitable campaign by winning the 2017 Legal Food Frenzy to benefit Feeding America Southwest Virginia. The Legal Food Frenzy is a project of The Virginia Bar Association Young Lawyers Division. It pits law firm against law firm in an effort to stock and support our local food pantry. While last year Gentry Locke elected a Food Czar — Paul Klockenbrink — this year’s organizers whipped the firm into a competitive frenzy with a campaign to elect an “Official Furry Friend of the Legal […]

ROANOKE, Va. (May 5, 2017) – Gentry Locke has been named Best Law Firm, Platinum by the Roanoker magazine in its 2017 annual reader poll. The platinum award is the highest honor in each category. The award is part of the magazine’s annual “Best of Roanoke” reader poll, which tabulates more than 68,000 individual votes by readers in more than 125 categories. The “Best of” issue, which is in its 30th continuous year, was published on May 5. Headquartered in Roanoke, VA, the Roanoker magazine has published for 43 years, making it the longest continuously running local magazine in Virginia. LeisureMedia360, which […]

April 28, 2017 – Gentry Locke Partner John R. Thomas, Jr., who represents clients with whistleblower, qui tam claims and False Claims Act litigation, was quoted in two recent articles discussing the recent settlement between the U.S. government and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, resolving allegations that the hospital fraudulently obtained federal grant money. The Boston Globe article, entitled, “Partners, Brigham and Women’s to pay $10m in research fraud case,” is available in a PDF or online here. In addition, Thomas was quoted in a Retraction Watch article entitled, “Harvard teaching hospital to pay $10 million to settle research misconduct allegations.” The […]

Gentry Locke is pleased to announce that 28 of the firm’s attorneys were selected for inclusion in the 2017 Virginia Super Lawyers® list, a national legal ranking. Attorneys were nominated by their peers and recognized for their outstanding professional achievement in several legal practice areas, including civil litigation, appellate law, criminal defense, business litigation, business/corporate law, construction litigation, employment & labor law and litigation, personal injury, professional liability, and tax law. Of those selected, 17 of the firm’s attorneys are from the Roanoke and Lynchburg offices and were named as Virginia Super Lawyers, while 11 attorneys were selected as Virginia […]

March 16, 2017 – Gentry Locke Parner Spencer M. Wiegard, who practices in the areas of construction law and construction litigation, was quoted in an article by Construction Dive writer Kim Slowey entitled “Regulation reboot: What is OSHA’s fate under a Trump administration?” You can read a formatted version of the article here. Here is the text of the article: Regulation reboot: What is OSHA’s fate under a Trump administration? Kim Slowey March 16, 2017 During last year’s presidential campaign, President Donald Trump ran on a variety of issues — with deregulation in order to create a more business-friendly environment as one […]

ROANOKE, Va. (March, 2017) – Thomas J. Bondurant, Jr., a partner in the Roanoke, Va., office of Gentry Locke, has been named by Emory & Henry College as the 2017 recipient of its E&H Distinguished Achievement Award. The award is granted annually to an alumnus/a who has attained distinguished achievements in a professional or volunteer capacity. Bondurant, who graduated with a B.A., cum laude, class of 1976, will be honored at the Emory & Henry College Founder’s Day on March 23, which pays tribute to the school’s founders and awardees. “I am honored to be recognized by Emory & Henry College […]

On January 6, 2017, the “Bloomberg BNA Daily Labor Report” published an article by Gentry Locke Partner Todd Leeson entitled Preventing Harassment in the Workplace: An Updated Analysis of the EEOC’s Call for a ‘‘Reboot.’’ A formatted version of the article provided the publication is available here: Leeson Insights Article (BBNA-2017_final) The article offers insights on the 88-page report on workplace harassment released by the EEOC’s Select Task Force in June 2016, and provides key takeaways for business owners and HR professionals to apply to their companies. It expands information provided in a previous article Todd published to our website. Contact Todd Leeson […]