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Law360, Corporate Counsel Business Journal and Virginia Business are among the news outlets that reported on McGuireWoods’ appointment of new leaders in three of the firm’s offices, announced Dec. 15, 2023. Maintaining the firm’s longstanding practice of rotating key leadership positions, the firm announced the appointments of office managing partners Janet Peyton in Richmond, Richard Cromwell in Norfolk and Elizabeth Zwickert Timmermans in Raleigh. Peyton told Law360 that it means “a great deal …

Maintaining the firm’s longstanding practice of rotating key leadership positions, McGuireWoods has appointed new office managing partners in Richmond, Norfolk and Raleigh. The leadership changes take effect in December. Janet Peyton has been named office managing partner in Richmond. She succeeds Michael Herring, who will become chair of the firm’s Commercial Litigation Department in January 2024. Peyton provides worldwide brand protection, enforcement, licensing and transactional IP services, and she advises clients on preventive …

McGuireWoods partners Robert Muckenfuss, Elizabeth Zwickert Timmermans and J. Michael Wilson, along with associate Natalina DePina, authored a recent Bloomberg Law article about liability and litigation considerations of closely-held companies going through corporate dissolution. According to the authors, corporate dissolution can be a cost-effective and efficient path to winding down a company short of bankruptcy in this uncertain economic time. But they warn that “it is critical to consider the litigation hurdles during …

In its March 2020 newsletter, the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity named McGuireWoods Raleigh partner Elizabeth Timmermans as one of its new City Leads for the LCLD Success in Law School Mentoring Program. Timmermans first became involved with LCLD shortly after she moved to Raleigh in 2013. She signed on as a mentor for the organization — and was quickly matched with then-law student Caroline Keen, who is now an associate in McGuireWoods’ Charlotte office …

… Commission. She represents utility clients in complex regulatory litigation, including proceedings involving base rate and rider cost recovery, acquiring certificates of public convenience and necessity, and other matters. Mark E. Shaffer (Complex Commercial Litigation – Tysons) concentrates his practice on eminent domain, construction, commercial litigation, contract disputes, financial services and landlord/tenant disputes. He also handles business/partnership disputes, land use issues, and trust and estate disputes. Elizabeth M.Z. Timmermans (Financial Services Litigation – Raleigh …