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Byrd Elected To Board Of Directors

L. Lee Byrd, chair of the Business and Professional Litigation practice group at the law firm of Sands Anderson Marks & Miller, has been elected to the firm's Board of Directors, board member Benjamin W. Emerson announced today.

Byrd, elected Wednesday by the shareholders for a three-year term, joins Emerson and M. Pierce Rucker on the firm's management team.

"The owners of the firm have shown their confidence in Lee's business acumen and understanding of our strategic goals, and we are proud to welcome him to the team whose job it is to shepherd and grow our firm," said Emerson.

Byrd joined Sands Anderson in 1992 and was invited to become a member of the firm's shareholder owners in 1998. In 2001, he took the reins of the business litigation team, a group of twenty-one attorneys spread across the firm's five offices. He earned his J.D. at the College of William and Mary School of Law and his B.A. at the University of Virginia.

Byrd's legal practice focuses on complex business disputes, including commercial lease, insurance, franchise, and employment disputes, business tort, breach of warranty, banking and other U.C.C. claims, and breach of contract cases. His cases frequently involve assertions of officer and director liability, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition, fraud and business conspiracy.

Founded more than 150 years ago, Sands Anderson has 76 lawyers practicing among its offices in Richmond, Blacksburg, Fredericksburg and McLean, Virginia, and the Research Triangle of North Carolina. In 2008, it was ranked 9th 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.