Lawyers / Professionals

 
Tennille J. Checkovich       
Associate
One James Center
901 East Cary Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219-4030
T: 804.775.4758
F: 804.440.7770
tcheckovich@mcguirewoods.com
 

Ms. Checkovich focuses her practice on general civil and complex commercial litigation. Her experience includes securities and derivative litigation, government investigations, patent litigation, environmental litigation, contract disputes, and appellate work. She has helped represent and advise corporations facing investigations and enforcement actions by federal government agencies, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She has also advised clients concerning compliance with various state and federal statutes.


Practices & Industries
Honors
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Jefferson Scholar

Previous Experience
  • Litigation Associate, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, New York, 2002-2004
  • Law Clerk, the Hon. Barbara S. Jones, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 2001-2002

Publications
  • "Shared Caregiving Responsibilities of Adult Siblings with Elderly Parents," Co-author with Steven Stern, The Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 37, No. 3 (2002)
 

EDUCATION

Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, J.D., 2001

  • Editor in Chief and Managing Editor, Yale Symposium on Law and Technology, 1999-2001

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, B.A. Economics, with Highest Distinction, 1998

 

FRATERNITIES OR SORORITIES

Alpha Delta Pi

 

ADMITTED

Virginia 2004

New York 2002

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia 2005

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia 2005

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York 2002

 

PLACE OF BIRTH

Aberdeen, South Dakota