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Donna Ray Chmura Joins Business Attorneys At Sands Anderson Marks & Miller's RTP Office
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NORTH CAROLINA (December 30, 2006)…Donna Ray Chmura has joined Sands Anderson Marks & Miller’s North Carolina office as Counsel and a member of the Business, Finance & Real Estate practice group, Managing Shareholder Paul C. Jacobson announced today.
Ms. Chmura was previously with Walker & Lambe, PLLC, in Durham where she has been engaged in business transactional work since 1999. During her time at Walker & Lambe, she represented clients in manufacturing, software, retail, restaurants, medical, dental and veterinary practices, as well as contractors/builders, real estate and mortgage brokers and accountants.
Sands Anderson Marks & Miller’s North Carolina office is located in the Research Triangle Park. Its clients include local governments, insurance companies, small and privately owned businesses and individuals.
Ms. Chmura’s legal experience has ranged from negotiating and drafting commercial transaction agreements (including real estate, financing, mergers, asset and stock purchases and sales) to serving as general counsel to a number of corporations and limited liability companies. She has counseled clients on risk management and asset protection strategies and worked with clients on business succession planning, in conjunction with estate planning attorneys, including structuring shareholder and partnership agreements and complex operating agreements. She has formed many corporations and LLCs, including professional organizations. Additionally, she has been involved with state and federal trademark prosecution.
She started her legal career at Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, where her practice focused on technology law and protection of intellectual property including licensing and corporate transactions.
Ms. Chmura received her B.S. in Journalism from The Medill School of Journalism of Northwestern University and for the two years following, she was a reporter and business reporter for the Rock Hill (SC) Herald. She received her J.D. degree, with honors, from The George Washington University School of Law where she was a member of the Giles S. Rich Inn of Court.
She is deeply involved in community activities including serving as secretary to the Board of Directors for the Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina and is a parent volunteer with the Montessori Community School in Durham. Donna is a native of Greensboro and she, her husband, Brian, and their four-year old daughter, Molly, reside in Durham.
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.