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Posted on 10/13/2023 William E. “Bill” Shmidheiser III of Harrisonburg, who recently retired from Flora Pettit, has been named the 2023 Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Pro Bono Award recipient.
Posted on 6/13/2023 Alicia M. Penn has been awarded the 2023 R. Edwin Burnette Jr. Young Lawyer of the Year Award by the Virginia State Bar’s Young Lawyers Conference (YLC).
Posted on 6/9/2023 Sherry A. Fox of Fox Family Formation in Glen Allen has been awarded Specialty Bar Leader of the Year by the VSB Conference of Local and Specialty Bar Associations (CLSBA).
Posted on 6/9/2023 The Conference of Local and Specialty Bar Associations has recognized six individual bars with eight projects between them and two multi-bar projects across the Commonwealth with Awards of Merit.
Posted on 5/24/2023 Bruce H. Russell, the longest-serving president of Southwest Virginia’s Russell County Bar Association, has been awarded the Local Bar Leader of the Year by the Conference of Local and Specialty Bar Associations (CLSBA).
Posted on 5/24/2023 The Dominion Energy Law Department has been awarded the 2023 Frankie Muse Freeman Organizational Pro Bono Award.
Posted on 5/19/2023 The Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Virginia (APABA-VA) has been named the Bar Association of the Year by the Virginia State Bar Conference of Local and Specialty Bar Associations (CLSBA).
Posted on 5/17/2023 The Honorable Cleo Elaine Powell, justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, has been awarded the Clarence M. Dunnaville Jr. Achievement Award, sponsored by the Diversity Conference of the Virginia State Bar.
Posted on 5/16/2023 Tamara X. Moore, managing attorney of the Culpeper branch office of Legal Aid Works (LAW), has been awarded the 2023 Virginia Legal Aid Award.
Posted on 5/15/2023 Elizabeth Faris of the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School class of ‘23 has been awarded the 2023 Oliver White Hill Law Student Pro Bono Award.
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