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Lynchburg Assistant City Attorney Joins Local Government Practice at Sands Anderson

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA (November 23, 2005)... Gladys L. Yates, former Assistant City Attorney for both Roanoke and Lynchburg, has joined the Local Government practice of Sands Anderson Marks & Miller, C. Thomas Ebel, firm president, announced.

"We are delighted to welcome an attorney of Gladys' experience and reputation to assist in serving the cities, counties and municipal authorities who are increasingly turning to our firm for advice and representation," said Daniel M. Siegel, chair of the Local Government practice group. Yates is located in the Richmond office of the firm.

Yates was most recently Assistant City Attorney in Lynchburg, concentrating on personnel issues, child abuse and neglect cases, tax assessment and delinquent collections. Previously, she served as Assistant City Attorney in Roanoke and handled delinquent tax collections, real estate, contract preparation and review, personnel issues and preparation of ordinances and resolutions.

Yates received her JD, cum laude, from Washington & Lee University School of Law in 1990 and her B.A. degree from the University of Virginia in Rhetoric and Communications. Following law school, Gladys clerked with The Hon. H. Clyde Pearson, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Virginia, in Roanoke, and then worked for a large Virginia-based firm's Washington, DC, office as an associate on the Litigation, Bankruptcy & Creditor's Rights Team.

Gladys, her husband, Jack Phillips, and their three children reside in Richmond.

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.