10:00 – 12:00

VWAA Board Meeting

Location:  Randolph

11:30

Conference Registration Opens – Prefunction

11:30 – 5:00

Exhibition Hall Open – Prefunction

11:30 – 12:45

Luncheon

Sponsor:  Minnesota Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company

Location:  Plantation

12:45 - 1:45

Seek & You Shall Find:  Professional Responsibility in Legal Services (1.0 Ethics CLE)

Kathryn Montgomery, Virginia State Bar

Location: Plantation

1:45 - 2:00

Break

Sponsor: JMW Settlements

2:00 - 4:00

T-Minus 90:  Trial Preparation in the 90 Days Leading to Opening Argument (2.0 hrs. CLE)

Jonnie Speight, Johnson, Ayers & Matthews, P.L.C.

Location: Plantation

4:00 - 5:00 

Choice:

Making a Client Whole:  Understanding the Law of Damages

(1 hr. CLE)

Connie Bertram, Winston & Strawn LLP

Location: Plantation

  - or -

Collateral Consequences of Juvenile Adjudications

(1.0 hr. CLE)

Margaret Nelson, Esq.

Location: Burwell

6:00 - 9:00 

Reception

Sponsors:  

Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen

McQuade Byrum

LeClair Ryan, Guynn, Memmer & Dillon, P.C.

The Law Office of Cynthia Kaplan Revesman, PLC

CRC Consulting

Location: Burwell

7:30 - 8:45 

Breakfast Program

Serving Those Who Serve:  Representing Non-Profits and Educational Institutions (1.0 CLE pending)

Patricia Gurne, Gurne Porter, PLLC, Washington D.C.

Mary Kennard, Vice President and General Counsel, American University, Washington D.C.

Kay Heidbreder, General Counsel, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Sponsor:  Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore

Location: Plantation

8:00 – 12:30

Exhibitors Hall open  

9:00 - 11:00 

Service as Officers of the Court:  Judicial Perspectives on Public Service and the Role of Appointed Counsel - Panel Discussion(2.0 hr.CLE pending)

Honorable Lydia Taylor,ret’d, Norfolk Circuit Court

Honorable Margaret Spencer, Richmond Circuit Court

Honorable Jacqueline Talevi, Roanoke City and County General District Court

Location: Plantation

11:00 – 11:15 

Break – SPONSOR  VWAA Richmond Chapter

11:15 – 12:15

Choice:

What Do You Do for a Living?  Using Vocational Experts in Spousal Support Cases (1 hr. CLE))

Sharon Chickering, Trial Lawyers, P.C.

Location: Plantation

  - or -

Will You Serve on Our Board?  A Primer for Lawyers Asked to Serve as a Director on a Non-Profit Board (1 hr. CLE)

Gerry Stegmaier, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati

Location: Randolph

12:15 – 1:15

Luncheon & presentation, “Define Your Design” 

Sponsor:  ReDecorate Today

Location: Burwell     

1:00 – 6:00

Golf Tournament to Benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation for Breast Cancer Research

Location:  Woods Course at Kingmill

7:00 – 8:00

8:00-11:00

Reception & Silent Auction             Burwell Plantation Deck

Banquet                                                          Burwell

Sponsors:

Williams Mullen

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