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Brunswick County Selects Firm To Serve As County Attorney

Published on: 5/13/2010

The firm of Sands Anderson PC and its local government attorneys Phyllis C. Katz and Robert E. Dawson were appointed by the Brunswick County Board of Supervisors to provide legal services as County Attorney, Local Government Chair Daniel M. Siegel reported today.

"We are pleased that the Board of Supervisors and the County Administrator found that the skills of our attorneys, and the financial arrangement we proposed, met the current legal needs and we very much  look forward to working with Brunswick County," he said.

Katz has been a local government and employment lawyer for 30 years, and a shareholder of the firm for a decade. Dawson, former City Attorney for Petersburg and a municipal bond and corporate lawyer for over 12 years, joined the firm in 2009.

Founded nearly 170 years ago, Sands Anderson has 70 lawyers practicing among its offices in Richmond, Christiansburg, Fredericksburg and McLean, Virginia, and Raleigh, North Carolina. In 2011, it was ranked 11th in the Virginia Lawyers Weekly annual listing of the state's largest law firms. Sands Anderson provides a full range of legal services to corporations and businesses, healthcare providers, financial institutions, state and local governments, the insurance industry and individuals.