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On October 18, 2017, Gentry Locke associate Andrew Gay presented on “From Project Manager to Attorney at Law: Things I wish I knew when I managed construction projects” to attendees at the 2017 Annual SW Virginia/Tennessee Construction Conference. The event took place in Abingdon, Virginia at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center.
Charlie Williams joined Gentry Locke in 1970 and heads the firm’s Environmental Law practice. His work includes advising corporate and municipal clients in the areas of environmental compliance, including enforcement and environmental tort litigation. He has extensive experience in contaminated land renewal and the management of environmental aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Everyone in the country that operates a business or owns property should be mindful of impending regulatory action regarding newly identified contaminants. These “emerging contaminants” are generally described as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFASs”) which are perfluoroalkyl acids that have been commonly and widely used in the United […]
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 […]
Alicha M. Grubb joins Commercial Litigation group and Ariel S. Wossene joins Plaintiff’s group ROANOKE, Va. (October 4, 2017) – Two lawyers have joined the Virginia law firm of Gentry Locke as associates in the Roanoke office. Alicha M. Grubb will work in the Commercial Litigation group helping clients resolve their business disputes, and Ariel S. Wossene will handle Qui Tam/Whistleblower matters while providing support to the firm’s Plaintiff, Employment, and Litigation practices. Both Alicha and Ariel join Gentry Locke after serving as law clerks at the 23rd Judicial Circuit Court of Virginia. While at the 23rd Judicial Circuit Court of […]
ROANOKE, Va. (September 29, 2017) – The Virginia law firm of Gentry Locke and two of its attorneys have been selected for recognition in the 2018 edition of Benchmark Litigation, which ranks leading local firms and star attorneys in the U.S. commercial litigation and plaintiff markets. Gentry Locke has been ranked as a “Recommended” firm for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Gentry Locke partners J. Rudy Austin and W. David Paxton have been named 2018 “Local Litigation Stars.” Both Austin and Paxton have been recognized by Benchmark consecutively since 2012. Austin, who was recognized in the realms of General Commercial and Insurance, […]
Cynthia Kinser was the first woman Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Her seventeen years of distinguished service to the Court ended with her retirement in 2014. In 2015, she joined Gentry Locke as Senior Counsel, where she focuses on appeals, criminal matters, and government investigations. The Supreme Court of Virginia amended Rule 5:17 and added a new rule, Rule 1:5A. The amendment to Rule 5:17(a)(1) simplifies calculation of the time period for filing a petition for appeal. The addition of Rule 1:5A eliminates a harsh outcome when a pleading or other paper is not signed or is signed by a person […]
On September 15, 2017, Gentry Locke partner Kathy Wright presented a CLE seminar with J. Duncan Pitchford to attendees of an event presented by The Virginia Bar Association’s Real Estate Section. The event took place in Charlottesville, Virginia. The one-hour course was designed to help real estate and general practitioners navigate Virginia’s dam regulations and dam ownership obligations, including dam maintenance, inspections, construction, alteration, costs and funding.
Christen Church is a partner who focuses her practice on intellectual property, data privacy and security, corporate advisory services, and health care regulation and compliance. Over $1,300,000,000.00 and 298,728. Respectively, these numbers represent reported losses and number of complaints the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center received in 2016. Many of these losses resulted from ransomware, tech support fraud, and Business Email Compromise (BEC), with most originating from phishing emails. BEC scams represent the increasingly sophisticated efforts of internet criminals. A criminal sends a phishing email to allow the scammers into your email accounts and computer system. Once you click […]
Gentry Locke for the Defense Circuit Court for the County of Richmond Gentry Locke successfully represented property owners in a zoning dispute. The County’s zoning administrator approved plans for the property owners to build a two-story garage on their property, and the zoning administrator certified that the plans fully complied with the County’s Zoning Ordinance. However, unbeknownst to the property owners, the zoning administrator did not review the zoning application or the building plans. In good faith reliance on the zoning administrator’s certification of compliance with the Zoning Ordinance, the property owners built the garage. Several months after construction was […]
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