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CHARLOTTESVILLE, May 29, 2019: Barbara S. Anderson (Fellows Class of 2017), a principal of the Life & Estate Planning Law Center in Alexandria, has received the Conference of Local and Specialty Bar Associations’ (CLSBA) Local Bar Leader of the Year Award. This honor recognizes a bar leader who “offers important service to the bench, bar,…
CHARLOTTESVILLE, May 7, 2019: Virginia Law Foundation Board Member and Fellow Michael HuYoung of Barnes & Diehl in Richmond was selected as the Virginia State Bar Diversity Conference’s 2019 Clarence M. Dunnaville Jr. Achievement Award recipient. Named after distinguished civil rights lawyer Clarence Dunnaville (Fellows Class of 2013), this award honors a Virginia lawyer “for…
CHARLOTTESVILLE, May 7, 2019: In observation of Law Day, the Virginia Law Foundation held its inaugural Past Presidents’ Luncheon on May 1 at the historic Commonwealth Club in Richmond, Virginia. In his opening remarks, current president F. Anderson Morse thanked the seventeen past presidents in attendance for their contributions and honored the 13 presidents who…
CHARLOTTESVILLE, April 26, 2019. According to Virginia Lawyers Weekly, Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons has encouraged all Virginia lawyers to participate in pro bono service and report their contributions. Lemons hopes to gather more reliable data on this important effort and increase pro bono representation in Virginia. The article also mentions the…
