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Mike Pace, Gentry Locke attorney and past managing partner of the firm, was lauded as a “Good guy” in an article written by Virginia Lawyers Weekly publisher Paul Fletcher. In his “Publisher’s Notebook” article titled “Good guy: Mike Pace”, Fletcher writes: On Jan. 25 in Williamsburg, the VBA bestowed its highest award, the Gerald L. Baliles Distinguished Service Award, to Pace for his service to the association and for his signature achievement, the Rule of Law Project. Past recipients include such luminaries as Baliles himself (who presented the award), Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.; 4th Circuit Judge Roger […]

Pace, founder of the Rule of Law Project, receives Gerald L. Baliles Distinguished Service Award Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, LLP is pleased to announce G. Michael Pace, Jr., has been recognized by The Virginia Bar Association (VBA) as the recipient of its Gerald L. Baliles Distinguished Service Award. Pace, managing partner of Gentry Locke Rakes and Moore until December 31, 2012, and the 2008 president of the VBA, received the honor at the VBA’s 2013 Annual Meeting in Williamsburg, Va. from Jan. 24-26. The award recognizes exceptional service and contributions to the bar and public at large. Pace is […]

The Virginia Law Foundation (VLF) inducted Gentry Locke Partner Bruce C. Stockburger and 16 other Virginia lawyers into its 2013 Class of Fellows. The VLF holds its induction dinner each year in connection with The Virginia Bar Association winter meeting. This year’s induction was held on January 24, 2013 in Williamsburg, Virginia. Induction as a Fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation is a special honor conferred by the VLF Board on selected Virginia attorneys, law professors, and retired members of the judiciary who are deemed to be outstanding in their profession and in their community. Bruce Stockburger has 35 years […]

Managing Partner Monica T. Monday was featured in an interview that The Roanoke Times published in its business section on Sunday, January 13, 2013 entitled “One Question with Monica Monday”. In the interview, Monday describes how it felt to rise to the highest management level in a 90-year-old law firm. “We have a really strong history of leadership in this firm. Bill Rakes was the managing partner for 20 years, Mike Pace for 14 years. In watching them I have learned a lot about their leadership, and I think they feel very strongly as I do about the firm’s involvement […]

Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, LLP is pleased to announce that attorneys Brooke Rosen and Michael Finney have been named partners with the Roanoke, Va. Brooke C. Rosen joined Gentry Locke’s General Commercial group in 2006. She focuses on employee benefits matters such as the implementation of qualified retirement plans, including 401(k) and Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP), executive nonqualified, deferred compensation and incentive programs, cafeteria plans, health benefit plans and other welfare and fringe benefit arrangements. She also works with entities applying for tax exempt status and assists in ongoing tax exempt compliance matters. Brooke earned her Juris Doctor cum laude from the Columbus School of […]

Monday succeeds G. Michael Pace, Jr. who will continue his practice in business, real estate law The Roanoke, Virginia law firm of Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, LLP has named Monica Taylor Monday as the firm’s Managing Partner, effective Jan. 1, 2013. Monday will succeed G. Michael Pace, Jr., who will continue his law practice at Gentry Locke while pursuing leadership opportunities at the Center for Teaching the Rule of Law, and its flagship program, the Virginia Law Foundation/Virginia Bar Association Rule of Law Project. Monday is a partner at Gentry Locke, chairs the Appellate practice group, and frequently writes and […]

While performing research on behalf of their clients, Gentry Locke attorneys Scott Sexton and Tony Russell uncovered discrepancies in what Insight Imaging – Roanoke told patients and insurance companies they were injecting and what drug was actually injected. On December 27, 2012, Gentry Locke Rake & Moore filed the first in a series of cases against Insight Health Corp. and related parties. These cases detail allegations of billing improprieties, negligence and misrepresentations related to the injections received by local patients of Insight Imaging – Roanoke.  The lawsuits seek relief for the patients on five different counts: (1) Negligence Per Se, (2) Virginia Consumer Protection […]

Gentry Locke has begun filing a series of Federal Complaints against New England Compounding Pharmacy, its chief pharmacist, Barry Cadden, and its marketing company, Medical Sales Management.  These cases seek between $5 million and $25 million in damages.  We anticipate filing more cases in the coming weeks. Gentry Locke attorney Scott Sexton was quoted in a recent article by The Roanoke Times: The latest lawsuits advance a new claim: The drug made by New England Compounding might have been contaminated by debris and dust from a recycling plant next door. Knowing the risks posed by the operation, New England Compounding […]

Gentry Locke Partner Monica T. Monday was chosen to be featured in a full-page profile in Virginia Business magazine. In the December issue, which names Virginia’s Legal Elite, editors of the magazine highlight only one attorney in each practice area with a full-page profile. Monday, who chairs Gentry Locke’s Appellate Law group, was featured for Appellate Law in recognition for her focus in handling appeals before the higher courts. In addition to many other honors, Monday was a 2006 “Leaders in the Law” honoree by Virginia Lawyers Weekly. Learn more about Monica Monday at www.gentrylocke.com/monday.