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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.

In 2012, Gentry Locke’s United Way Campaign resulted in the Firm being awarded a Campaign Achievement Award.

U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers have named the Virginia law firm of Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, LLP to its 2013 list of “Best Law Firms”. The rankings, presented in tiers, showcase more than 10,000 law firms ranked nationally or by metropolitan region. Firms were ranked nationally in one or more of 80 legal practice areas and by metro or state in 118 practice areas. These rankings feature law firms given consistently impressive performance ratings by clients and peers, as the rating procedure combines hard data with peer reviews and client assessments Gentry Locke’s 2013 Best Law Firms Rankings […]

The Virginia law firm of Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, LLP is pleased to have been named one of the 2013 U.S. Top Ranked Law Firms.  The list will appear in Fortune magazine’s December 24th Special 2013 Investor’s Guide, as well as in the January 2013 editions of Corporate Counsel and The American Lawyer, published by American Lawyer Media. The list was compiled by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell and is based on Gentry Locke’s large percentage of AV-rated attorneys.  AV Ratings are the highest an attorney can attain from Martindale-Hubbell, and is based upon reviews by judges and peers. Retaining top-rated attorneys is a […]