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Robert B. (Chip) Delano, Jr. Elected to the Board of Directors of DRI - The Voice of the Defense Bar

(February 3, 2005) - Robert B. (Chip) Delano, Jr., a partner in the law firm Sands Anderson Marks & Miller, P. C., has been elected the Mid-Atlantic Regional Director of DRI - The Voice of the Defense Bar.

As a member of the DRI Board of Directors, Delano will oversee the DRI programs for Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland and the District of Columbia. The DRI - The Voice of the Defense Bar is the nation's leading defense bar organization with more than 21,500 defense trial lawyers and corporate counsel members. For more information on the DRI, visit www.dri.org.

Delano is a veteran litigator with more than 23 years of experience and concentrates his practice in the areas of tort, insurance and appellate litigation. He has significant experience in advising and representing insurance companies and employee benefit plans regarding life, health and/or disability insurance and ERISA claims. For more information, visit http://www.sandsanderson.com/Attorneys/delano.htm.

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.