News, Events, Seminars & Articles by Gentry Locke Attorneys

Here phishy, phishy…Tips to Evade Phishing Attacks

Articles September 2017

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 […]

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Property Owners Entitled to Relief from Zoning Administrator’s Mistake

Case Studies August 2017

The results of client matters depend on a variety of factors unique to each matter. Past successes do not predict or guarantee future successes.

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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Doing Business in Virginia: Cheap Registration Fee v. Costly Failure to Register

Articles August 2017

Amanda Morgan is Of Counsel to Gentry Locke’s Lynchburg office, where she focuses on municipal, civil, and business litigation. Companies formed in states other than Virginia (known as non-Virginia or “foreign companies”) must register with the Virginia State Corporation Commission (“SCC”) before transacting business in Virginia. Registration involves completing an annual form and paying a nominal fee (which varies depending on the type of company) to the SCC along with appointing a registered agent in Virginia to accept service of any lawsuit papers or other legal notices. Companies that merely own real estate or other assets in Virginia generally are […]

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21 Gentry Locke Attorneys Named to 2018 Best Lawyers in America®

News August 2017

ROANOKE, Va. (August 15, 2017) – The Virginia law firm of Gentry Locke is pleased to announce that 21 of the firm’s attorneys were selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® (2018 edition), a national legal ranking. Attorneys were nominated by their peers and recognized for their outstanding professional achievement in several legal practice areas, including appellate practice, banking and finance law, bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation, criminal defense, employment law, insurance law, medical malpractice law, tax law, trusts and estates, and more. Of the firm attorneys listed in the Best Lawyers in America, six have been on the […]

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Wrongful death surgery “blame game” results in verdict of over $8.75M

Case Studies August 2017

The results of client matters depend on a variety of factors unique to each matter. Past successes do not predict or guarantee future successes.

Gentry Locke for the Plaintiff Fairfax County Circuit Court Karen Ebersole was 55 years old when a right middle cerebral artery bifurcation aneurysm was incidentally found on MRI. She was a candidate for both neurosurgical and neuro-endovascular intervention. She ultimately chose to pursue a neuro-endovascular “coiling” procedure to be performed by the defendant doctor. Ironically, the defendant doctor was one of the partners at Fairfax Radiological Consultants, Ms. Ebersole’s long-time employer. The procedure was performed on May 6, 2013 under general anesthesia. The paralytic drug rocuronium was used for paralysis at the beginning of the procedure to facilitate intubation. The […]

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The DPOR and the Virginia Board for Contractors; Regulatory Compliance, Investigations and Enforcement Actions

Events August 2017

On August 3, 2017 Gentry Locke partner Spencer Wiegard presented before attendees at the 2017 Convention and Annual Meeting of the Virginia Manufactured and Modular Housing Association (VAMMHA). In presenting “The DPOR and the Virginia Board for Contractors; Regulatory Compliance, Investigations and Enforcement Actions,” Spencer discussed Virginia contractor license requirements and regulations, and how those requirements and regulations impact manufacturers and retailers of modular and manufactured homes.

Briefing about Funding Opportunities for US Expansion

Events August 2017

On August 28, 2017 Gentry Locke partner Herschel Keller and Matt Benka, an expert in business development, will speak in Tel Aviv to a select audience of business professionals.

Gentry Locke Partner Christen Church Quoted in Article on Medical Data Breach

News August 2017

Gentry Locke partner Christen Church, who handles health care regulation and compliance, and data privacy and security, was recently quoted in a Dan Casey article in The Roanoke Times regarding on an ongoing, inadvertent medical data breach. A local CPA has been receiving faxes with private medical information for four years. Christen is quoted as follows: Christen Church, an attorney at Gentry Locke whose practice areas include intellectual property, health care regulation compliance and data privacy and security, said what I described seemed to clearly fall under the category of “inadvertent” breaches, rather than “malicious” ones. But either way, under the law it sounds […]

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Lawsuit filed against Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Mountain Valley Pipeline

News July 2017

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 27, 2017 Contact: Justin M. Lugar, 540.983.9324, jlugar@gentrylocke.com Lawsuit filed against Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Mountain Valley Pipeline on behalf of landowners Constitutionality of FERC eminent domain procedures challenged ROANOKE, Va. (July 27, 2017) – Today attorneys of the Virginia law firm Gentry Locke filed a Complaint in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, Roanoke Division, challenging the constitutionality of actions by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) and Mountain Valley Pipeline (“MVP”). A Motion for a Preliminary Injunction has been filed along with the Complaint. The Motion seeks assistance […]

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Doing Business Together – Ten Things to Consider Before You Sign

Events July 2017

On July 15, 2017, attendees at the Virginia Transportation Construction Alliance’s Annual Conference learned about “Doing Business Together – Ten Things to Consider Before You Sign,” a joint presentation by Gentry Locke attorneys Brett Marston and Andrew Gay, and Billy Robinson of Brown Edwards CPAs. The event took place at The Omni Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia. The VTCA is the leading advocate and only state association exclusively dedicated to serving the contractors, aggregate producers, engineers, suppliers and service providers who design, build and maintain Virginia’s transportation network.

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