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Posted on 5/11/2026 Danny Zemel has been awarded the 2026 Lewis F. Powell Jr. Pro Bono Award, given by the Access to Legal Services Committee of the Virginia State Bar to honor an attorney who has made outstanding pro bono contributions in the Commonwealth.
Posted on 5/11/2026 The Local and Specialty Bar Section has recognized four projects completed by four individual bar associations with Awards of Merit.
Posted on 5/11/2026 The VSB Access to Legal Services Committee has awarded Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP the 2026 Frankie Muse Freeman Organizational Pro Bono Award.
Posted on 5/6/2026 The Virginia State Bar Young Lawyers Section has named Mikaela Phillips, assistant solicitor general for the Virginia Office of the Attorney General, as the R. Edwin Burnette Jr. Young Lawyer of the Year.
Posted on 5/6/2026 Molly E. Newton, president of the Greater Penninsula Women's Bas Association (GPWBA), has been awarded Specialty Bar Leader of the Year by the Virginia State Bar Local and Specialty Bar Section (LSBS).
Posted on 4/30/2026 Martha McQuade, partner at McQuade Byrum PLLC, received the Edward L. Chambers Jr. Lifetime Bar Service Award.
Posted on 4/29/2026 The Hon. Roger L. Gregory, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, has been awarded the 2026 Clarence M. Dunnaville Jr. Achievement Award, given by the VSB Diversity Section.
Posted on 4/23/2026 Mills Anderson "Andy" Bradshaw, of M. Anderson Bradshaw, P.C., has been awarded the General Practice Section’s Tradition of Excellence Award.
Posted on 4/2/2026 Henry N. Butler, the Henry G. Manne Chair in Law and Economics and chairman of the Law & Economics Center at George Mason Univ.’s Antonin Scalia Law School, is the recipient of the William R. Rakes Leadership in Education Award by the VSB.
Posted on 3/20/2026 Brian M. Hirsch of Hirsch & Ehlenberger in Reston was named the 2026 recipient of the Betty A. Thompson Lifetime Achievement Award by the Virginia State Bar’s Family Law Section.