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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 […]