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Bill Shmidheiser Receives 2023 Powell Pro Bono Award

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.

  

Dominion Energy Law Department Receives Pro Bono Award from Virginia State Bar

Posted on 5/24/2023
The Dominion Energy Law Department has been awarded the 2023 Frankie Muse Freeman Organizational Pro Bono Award.

  

Tamara Moore Awarded the 2023 Virginia Legal Aid Award

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.

  

Elizabeth Faris Receives the 2023 Oliver White Hill Law Student Pro Bono 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.

  

Lonnie D. Nunley, III Receives 2022 Lewis F. Powell Jr. Pro Bono Award

Posted on 9/15/2022
The 2022 Lewis F. Powell Jr. Pro Bono Award has been awarded to long-serving litigator Lonnie “Chip” D. Nunley, III of Richmond.

  

Justice Stephen R. McCullough to Co-Chair the Virginia Access to Justice Commission

Posted on 9/1/2022
The Honorable Stephen R. McCullough will succeed Chief Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn as the Justice Co-Chair of the Virginia Access to Justice Commission, effective September 1, 2022, for a term of three years.

  

Military Law Section Presents 2022 Pro Bono Awards

Posted on 6/1/2022
The Virginia State Bar Military Law Section has named Marcia McCarthy Dillon and Wendy B. Harris as recipients of the Military Law Section Pro Bono Award.

  

Jennifer Locke Receives the 2022 Virginia Legal Aid Award

Posted on 5/2/2022
Jennifer L. Locke, managing attorney of the Winchester office of Blue Ridge Legal Services, the legal aid society serving the Shenandoah and Roanoke Valleys of Virginia, has received the Virginia State Bar 2022 Virginia Legal Aid Award.

  

Jessica Choate Receives Oliver White Hill Award for Pro Bono Service

Posted on 5/2/2022
Jessica Choate of the George Mason University Law School class of ’22 has been awarded the Virginia State Bar Oliver White Hill Law Student Pro Bono Award for 2022.

  

Greater Richmond Bar Foundation Receives Frankie Muse Freeman Pro Bono Award

Posted on 8/30/2021
The Virginia State Bar Access to Legal Services Committee has awarded the Greater Richmond Bar Foundation the 2021 Frankie Muse Freeman Organizational Pro Bono Award.

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