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Victor Cardwell is among Virginia’s most recognized and accomplished experts in labor and employment law. Victor specializes in workplace violence, diversity, harassment and the Fair Labor Standards Act. He is sought after for training in a number of areas of labor and employment law across Virginia and is experienced in representing management in union organizing campaigns and union avoidance techniques.. He has practiced before the National Labor Relations Board and has significant experience before state and federal courts and administrative agencies. Victor has written and lectured on all kinds of areas involving labor and employment law.. Prior to joining Woods Rogers in 1991, Victor served as Deputy Associate Chief Counsel with the U. S. Department of Labor Benefits Review Board. He has served as a member of the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association, representing Virginia, and was appointed to the Human Rights Council of the Commonwealth of Virginia.. Victor has been named to the Best Lawyers in America list since 2006 and recently has been included among the Super Lawyers in Virginia. Virginia Living magazine also named Victor a Legal Eagle.. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and law degree from Washington and Lee School of Law.. Victor has lent his legal talents to help such non-profit organizations as Family Services of the Valley, Mill Mountain Zoo, Child Health Investment Partnership, Center in the Square, United Way of Roanoke Valley, Virginia Commission on Human Rights and many more.

Tom Winn represents management in the full range of labor and employment law issues. Tom represents employers in litigation before state and federal courts and administrative agencies. He also handles labor arbitrations, negotiations, strike-related activities and other issues under collective bargaining agreements.. Tom counsels management in union avoidance campaigns, and regularly handles litigation before the National Labor Relations Board.. In addition, Tom advises and trains management clients on workplace issues ranging from employee handbooks and agreements, discipline and discharge issues, ADA and FMLA compliance, workplace harassment and discrimination, substance abuse, affirmative action policies, and unfair competition issues. He’s a frequent contributor to the annual Woods Rogers Labor & Employment Seminar series.. Tom has been recognized for excellence in labor and employment by Best Lawyers in America, Virginia Business and Super Lawyers Magazine. Tom is a past chairman of the Employment Law Section of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles in various publications, including The Journal of Civil Litigation and The University of Richmond Law Review. Tom is co-author of Labor & Employment Law In Virginia: A Business Guide For Employers, a book published through the Virginia Chamber of Commerce.. Tom graduated from Duke University and cum laude from the University of Richmond’s law school where he was a member of the McNeill Law Society. His community involvement has included the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce, Boy Scouts of America, Opera Roanoke and Pathfinders for Greenways and DePaul Community Resources, among many others.

Nicholas C. Conte is one of Virginia’s premier corporate law attorneys. As Chairman of Woods Rogers and of our Corporate Law Group, he concentrates his practice in corporate and business law for start-up companies, closely held businesses and public companies throughout Virginia.. He has handled a wide range of corporate and business matters, representing companies in a variety of industries, including high tech, biotechnology, services and manufacturing. Nick has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, contract law, computer law, Internet business matters, succession planning, venture capital and financing.. Nick is vice chair of the Virginia State Bar’s Business Law Section and is a member of the Business Law Section of the Virginia Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He also serves on the Corporate Governance Committee of the ABA’s Business Law Section.. He imparts his wisdom as an adjunct professor of law at Washington and Lee University Law School, where he teaches a class on corporation finance.. Nick’s many media accolades include being named a Legal Elite in Virginia Business magazine, and making the lists of Best Lawyers in America and Virginia Super Lawyers magazine. He’s also been recognized by The Roanoker magazine as one of the top business attorneys in the Roanoke Valley.. Nick is an active member of the community, serving on the boards of directors of The Virginia Economic Bridge, United Way of Roanoke Valley, the Roanoke-Blacksburg Technology Council and Roanoke Symphony Orchestra.. He received both his undergraduate degree and his law degree from the College of William & Mary.

Joshua R. Treece practices in the firm’s Labor & Employment and Litigation sections. Josh focuses his employment practice on issues related to discrimination, harassment, unfair competition, E-Verify and I-9 compliance. His litigation practice concentrates on matters pertaining to contract disputes and business torts and intellectual property disputes.. The North Carolina native is a magna cum laude graduate of Appalachian State University, where he was recognized with the Outstanding/Distinguished Senior Award. He received his law degree from William & Mary School of Law. Between his first and second year there, Josh worked for the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Materials Litigation and Enforcement Division in Rockville, Md. Throughout his second year of law school, Josh clerked for the Honorable F. Bradford Stillman, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia.. Prior to attending law school, Josh served as a law clerk with the United States Department of Justice, Office of the United States Trustee in Atlanta. Josh also spent four years working as an investigator for a South Carolina firm.. He is active in the local chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management.

Joshua Forrest Pescud Long, a member of our Litigation, Labor and Employment and intellectual Property sections, concentrates his practice in matters pertaining to business torts, contract disputes, unfair competition and intellectual property.. His experience includes employment and employee benefits (ERISA) litigation defense, antitrust and land use matters and state and federal appellate practice. He participates in the firm’s annual Labor & Employment seminar series.. Prior to joining the firm, Josh practiced law in Charlotte, N.C., and was a law clerk for the Honorable Frank W. Bullock, Jr., U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina, in Greensboro, N.C.. The Chapel Hill, N.C., native received his bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Richmond and earned his law degree, with honors, from the University of North Carolina, where he was a member of the North Carolina Law Review and the Board of Editors of the North Carolina Banking Journal.

John has been a trusted mainstay of the Roanoke legal community since graduating from law school in 1973. The Roanoke native practices domestic relations and family law and has served as chair of the Virginia Bar Association’s Domestic Relation Section Council.. In addition to his domestic law practice, John represents businesses, both public and private, and individuals in a variety of legal matters.. He is a member of the Litigation, Family and Business Law Sections of the Virginia State Bar and the Virginia Bar Association’s Domestic, Business and Litigation Sections.  John is currently Chairman  of the VBA Domestic Relations Section Council and is a member of the Family Law and State Section of the American Bar Association.. John has been recognized byVirginia Businessmagazine as one of its Legal Elite in the area of family and domestic relations.. John attended the University of South and graduated from Hampden-Sydney College.  He received his law degree from the University of South Carolina, where he served on the South Carolina Law Review.

James W. Jennings is a trial lawyer with more than 40 years of experience in civil litigation in both federal and state court. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, defending personal injury and product liability actions, toxic torts and FELA.. He has handled a wide range of cases for industrial, transportation, local government and commercial clients throughout Virginia and in neighboring states. He is a past president of the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys (ADTA), comprised of selected trial lawyers from the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, and the Virginia chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates.. His previous awards include the Defense Research Institute’s Exceptional Service Award and election to the Virginia Law Foundation. James has been listed in Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers, Chambers and as a Legal Elite in Virginia Business.. The Texas native received both his undergraduate and law degrees from Washington and Lee University. After finishing college in 1965, he served in the United States Navy and returned to the law school, where he served as an editor of the Washington and Lee Law Review, was inducted into the Order of the Coif and graduated magna cum laude.. His community contributions are many. He serves on Averett University’s Board of Trustees and has served on the boards of directors of Downtown Roanoke, Inc., Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce, Opera Roanoke and many others.

He’s worked on model non-competition agreements for a Fortune 500 company covering employees nationwide, drafted a handbook for one of Virginia’s largest contractors, and helped one of Virginia’s largest private medical practices reorganize its operations.. Prior to Woods Rogers, Agnis was a principal at the Center for Employment Law, P.C. He’s a member of the Labor and Employment sections of both the Virginia Bar Association and the American Bar Association, where he serves on The Developing Labor Law Subcommittee.. Agnis has a bachelor’s degree from the College of William & Mary and earned his law degree from the University of Richmond School of Law.. He is consistently honored by Virginia Business magazine as a Legal Elite in the field of labor and employment and is also listed in Best Lawyers in America and Virginia Super Lawyers. He’s been recognized as a Best Lawyer by Corporate Counsel magazine.. Agnis is a board member of the Al Pollard Memorial Foundation, helping to raise scholarship dollars in the name of a Roanoke corporate leader.

Francis H. “Chip” Casola is an experienced litigator who has handled a wide variety of personal injury matters including car accidents, motorcycle accidents, truck accidents, drunk driver, drowning, defective products, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries and wrongful death cases.. Chip’s more notable cases involve the drowning of a child at a municipal pool, the death of a grandmother and her nine-year-old granddaughter when crushed by a rollback wrecker while stopped for a school bus, a motorcyclist who lost his leg in an accident on a curve, the death of a hobby farmer who was crushed by the bush hog on his tractor, and brain and other serious injuries to the passenger of a horse driven carriage which ran amok.. Chip also has experience handling complicated insurance issues which often accompany serious accidents.. While he has the resources of a large law firm available to him, Chip takes pride in providing his clients with personal service and moving cases to resolution as expeditiously as possible.  He has earned a perfect Martindale-Hubbell A/V rating from his peers.  He also has been listed with Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers and Virginia’s Legal Elite.  He is a past president of the Roanoke Bar Association, and has been active in other bar activities.  He is a graduate of Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia School of Law.. Personal injury cases typically are handled on a contingent fee basis where the attorney is not paid unless there is a recovery, and the attorney advances all expenses. Cases for injured parties are handled on a contingent-fee basis, meaning no fee is charged unless there is a recovery. Cases for injured parties are handled on a contingent-fee basis, meaning no fee is charged unless there is a recovery. In addition, expenses typically are advanced on behalf of injured clients to the extent allowable by governing ethics rules.

Erin B. Ashwell is an associate in Woods Rogers' Litigation Section.  A native of Bedford County, Erin is licensed to practice in Virginia and California. Erin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard college University in 2002 with a degree in Government.  Prior to attending law school, Erin worked as a staff assistant in the United States Senate. Erin earned her J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2006.  While in law school, Erin was a Virginia Governor's Fellow and a summer associate in an international law firm in Washington D.C. and in Hong Kong, China.  Erin was also a Teaching Fellow in the Harvard Government Department, where she was awarded a certificate for distinction in teaching.   After law school, Erin worked as a trial lawyer for the United States Department of Justice, frequently litigating in California.  She has also been a lecturer in Political Science at Hollins University, and most recently a pro se law clerk, and temporary clerk to the Honorable Michael F. Urbanski, United States Magistrate Judge.

Elizabeth Hope Cothran represents employers in litigation before state and federal courts and administrative agencies in a wide range of employment law issues in our Labor and Employment section. Hope also assists government contractors with all aspects of affirmative action compliance, including developing and maintaining affirmative action plans and defending them in audits conducted by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).. Hope regularly presents at our annual Labor & Employment seminar, advises employers and trains employees on a wide variety of workplace issues such as employee handbooks and agreements, discipline and discharge issues, noncompetition issues, social media in the workplace, FLSA, ADA and FMLA compliance and workplace harassment and discrimination.. She’s also written and lectured on all aspects of employment law throughout the region and has been cited by Super Lawyers magazine as one of its “Rising Stars.”. Hope volunteers her time by serving as president of the board of directors of Bethany Hall, which provides long-term residential substance abuse treatment for women. Always looking to give back to her profession, Hope also co-chairs the Choose Law/Pre-Law Counseling Committee of the Virginia Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division.. Hope also serves as the co-chair of the firm’s Recruitment committee.. Hope is a graduate of Emory University and earned her law degree from the University of Richmond.

Elizabeth Guilbert Perrow is a trial lawyer who practices primarily in the area of medical malpractice defense.. Elizabeth has extensive experience representing healthcare providers and has successfully defended physicians, nurses and hospitals. She is also trained in Collaborative Process, a unique way to resolve divorces.. Elizabeth has tried jury cases in circuit courts and participated in numerous mediations. She was recognized by Virginia Lawyers Weekly for receiving one of the largest defense verdicts in 2007 and 2011 and receiving two “million-dollar med-mal defense verdicts” in 2010 and 2012.. She has lectured extensively on risk management issues to various professional groups in Virginia and has authored a chapter of Virginia CLE Medical Malpractice Law in Virginia.. Elizabeth is the new president of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys (VADA) – the second-youngest president and only the second woman to lead the statewide bar association for defense attorneys. Perrow also is the third Woods Rogers attorney to serve as president of the organization.. She’s been named in Super Lawyers and in Best Lawyers in America in personal injury defense/medical malpractice and medical malpractice law.. Elizabeth graduated from Lynchburg College cum laude and earned her law degree at Oklahoma City University School of Law, summa cum laude, where she received the award for Outstanding Woman Graduate in her class.. She received the Young Lawyer of the Year Award from the Roanoke Bar Association in 2008 and was twice named Boss of the Year by the Roanoke Valley Legal Secretaries Association (RVLSA).

Daniel C. Summerlin III practices in the firm’s Environmental Law, White Collar Crime, Commercial Litigation and Labor and Employment Law sections.. Dan has represented management and municipalities in cases involving a wide array of criminal, environmental and employment issues. His practice has included litigation in state and federal courts, representing clients before state and federal agencies, as well as counseling clients on important managerial decisions covering the environment and employment matters. In addition to his environmental law and employment law, Dan also represents clients in commercial litigation matters in state and federal court.. He’s a contributor to Woods Rogers’ annual Labor & Employment Seminar series.. Dan, a Roanoke native, returned to the area upon earning his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina and law degree from William and Mary and.

D. Stan Barnhill has substantial litigation experience representing businesses and persons in breach-of-contract, business torts, construction, professional malpractice and other commercial disputes. His experience also includes representing media outlets in First Amendment, Freedom of Information, reporter privilege and defamation matters. He also represents numerous business owners, contractors and design professions in contract formation. Stan is a past chair of the Construction Law Section of the Virginia State Bar and a member of the Virginia State Bar’s Litigation Section, the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section, and the American Bar Association’s Forum on the Construction Industry.. Stan, with Woods Rogers since 1983, has been recognized for excellence through his annual listing in Best Lawyers in America for First Amendment law, business litigation, construction law, and professional malpractice defense, and is annually listed in Virginia Business’s “Legal Elite” for construction law.. After receiving both bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Virginia Tech, Stan earned a law degree from Washington and Lee University, where he graduated magna cum laude, was elected to the Order of the Coif, and served as lead articles editor of the Law Review.

Christopher W. Stevens practices in our Litigation section. His primary areas of practice have included general civil litigation, commercial litigation, insurance defense, professional liability, personal injury, construction litigation and workers' compensation.. He represents lawyers in professional liability claims and physicians, veterinarians, dentists and other professionals concerning licensing complaints. He also represents developers, contractors, architects and engineers in matters related to construction, insurance coverage and personal injury claims.. The Roanoke native has been named in Best Lawyers in America for his work in insurance law. He’s also been selected by Virginia Business magazine as one of its Legal Elite in civil litigation.. Chris is a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College and the University of Richmond’s T.C. Williams School of Law.

As chairman of the firm’s Litigation section, Mark D. Loftis practices primarily in the areas of product liability, commercial litigation and insurance coverage litigation.. He has extensive experience representing product manufacturers, product retailers and utility companies in litigation matters in both state and federal courts. He frequently writes and lectures on warranty, contract and technology law issues.. Mark has served as president of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, the leading statewide bar organization for attorneys dedicated to the defense of civil actions, and has been inducted in the Virginia Law Foundation. An experienced trial lawyer who has tried numerous cases to verdict, Mark also is listed in Best Lawyers in America and in Virginia Super Lawyers.. Mark is a graduate of Georgetown University and received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.. His pro bono work includes serving as the chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.

Aaron B. Houchens represents corporations and individuals in federal and state court as a member of our Litigation section. He focuses on criminal (including traffic) and family law, where he represents individuals in complex proceedings.. The Roanoke Valley native graduated cum laude from Vanderbilt University and earned his law degree from the University of Richmond, graduating magna cum laude. While at the University of Richmond, Aaron worked in the Richmond City Public Defenders office and received the pro bono service award for his work there.. Aaron was a member of the Moot Court Board while in law school.. His pro bono work continues as a volunteer with the Roanoke Legal Aid Pro Bono Hotline. He’s also active with CHIP of Roanoke Valley and a board member at Community School.