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Sands Anderson Attorneys Appear Among Lists Claiming To Name Virginia's Top Lawyers

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA (November 6, 2006)…Twenty-two attorneys from Sands Anderson Marks and Miller have been included among the better known in Virginia on published compilations chosen through votes of attorneys throughout the state.

The Best Lawyers in America, a national list of attorneys whose peers have evaluated their credentials and experience in a detailed ratings process, according to the publisher Woodward/White Company, includes: William D. Cremins, Personal Injury Litigation; Robert B. Delano, Jr., Insurance Law; Mary Louise Kramer, Workers' Compensation Law; Frank B. Miller III, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation and Professional Malpractice Law; Albert M. Orgain IV, Transportation Law; Douglas P. Rucker, Jr., Professional Malpractice Law; M. Pierce Rucker, Medical Malpractice Law; and J. Jonathan Schraub, Professional Malpractice Law.

The Virginia Business magazine’s 2006 “Virginia Legal Elite” list, which comes out annually in the December issue and is assembled through ballots distributed to members of the Virginia Bar Association, includes: L. Lee Byrd, Civil Litigation; C Michael DeCamps, Labor/Employment Law; Jeffrey H. Geiger, Intellectual Property ; Terrence L. Graves, Transportation/Admir-alty/Intermodal; David W. Hearn, Young Lawyer; Elaine R. Jordan, Alternative Dispute Resolution; Phyllis C. Katz, Labor/Employment; Benjamin R. Lacy, IV, Business Law; Bruce L. Mertens, Taxes/Estates/Trusts; Albert M. Orgain, IV, Transportation/Admiralty/Intermodal; Brian R Pitney, Business Law; M. Pierce Rucker, Health Law; J. Jonathan Schraub, Civil Litigation; William N. Watkins, Civil Litigation; and Carlyle Randolph Wimbish, III, Health Law.

Virginia Super Lawyers, a publication of Law and Politics, Inc., sends nomination surveys to a majority of licensed attorneys in Virginia, and collects the submitted names mentioned most often in an annual list, which is mailed to the same universe and inserted in Richmond Magazine. Included in the first Virginia list this year were: L. Lee Byrd - Business Litigation; William D. Cremins, Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice; C. Michael DeCamps - Employment & Labor; Elaine R. Jordan - Construction/Surety; Bruce L. Mertens - Estate Planning & Probate; Frank B. Miller, III - Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice; Albert M. Orgain, IV - Civil Litigation Defense; Brian R. Pitney - Business/Corporate; Douglas P. Rucker, Jr. - Professional Liability: Defense; M. Pierce Rucker, II - Health Care; John B. Russell - Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice; J. Jonathan Schraub - Professional Liability: Defense; Daniel M. Siegel - Bonds/Government Finance; and Carlyle R. Wimbish, III - Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice.

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.