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Volunteers from McGuireWoods and Capital One’s legal department collaborated with the National Veterans Legal Services Program (NVLSP) for a training session and pro bono legal clinic on Sept. 13, 2023, to assist veterans in the Richmond area.As part of its Lawyers Serving Warriors® program, NVLSP provided an hourlong CLE training at McGuireWoods’ Richmond office on how to represent veterans seeking discharge upgrades (e.g., from “general” to “honorable”). The designation characterizing a …

Richmond partner Bryan Fratkin and associate Pat McNichol, members of McGuireWoods’ Business & Securities Litigation Department, co-authored the Virginia chapter of the book “The Law of Class Action: Fifty-State Survey 2021.” Published June 2, 2021, by the American Bar Association, the book is a valuable tool for in-house and outside counsel facing the prospect of litigating class actions in state forums where they may have little or no experience and still must make …

From May 20-27, 2021, 65 volunteers from the Richmond and Washington, D.C., offices of McGuireWoods and Capital One worked with the Greater Richmond Bar Foundation (GRBF) and Virginia Department of Veterans Services to assist veterans with estate planning, simple wills, powers of attorney and living wills. This Wills for Veterans pro bono legal clinic, which took place on Capital One’s Pro Bono Day, helped 55 Virginia veterans prepare more than 160 life …

Law360 quoted partner Bryan Fratkin, co-leader of McGuire Woods’ class action practice group, in a March 26, 2021 article titled “High Court FCRA Case Could Shake Up Class Action Standing.” The article previewed the March 30 oral arguments in TransUnion v. Ramirez, a U.S. Supreme Court case alleging violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) that could drastically restrict or eliminate large consumer privacy and data breach class actions.The Supreme Court …

… Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law.Rachelle Thompson (Intellectual Property) is a former patent prosecutor who brings an advanced technical background to litigating patent disputes in industries such as biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, smartphones, wireless technology and semiconductors. She also represents clients in trademark and copyright litigation, and provides IP-related counseling on a range of technologies to clients across industries.

The widely read news service of the law profession, Law360, has selected McGuireWoods Chairman Richard Cullen and partner Bryan Fratkin to serve on its 2016 sports and banking editorial advisory boards, respectively. Participants of the 12-member boards will advise the publication on legal trends and issues facing the sports and banking industries to help shape Law360’s future coverage of these areas.