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Attorney Profiles

The caliber of a law firm is gauged by the excellence of its individuals, personally and professionally, and the ethic to which the community adheres. Meet our lawyers who, together and with our dedicated team of support professionals, strive to create and maintain long term relationships with our clients through earned trust and proven performance.

Hugh T. Antrim

A principal since 1981, Mr. Antrim has been associated with ThompsonMcMullan since 1978. He currently serves on the Firm’s Executive Committee.

Rebecca C. Bowen

Rebecca Bowen’s practice focuses on business entities and transactions, tax law, and estate planning and administration.

Zachary D. Cohen

Mark Colombell

His practice includes representation of individuals, businesses, consumer financial institutions and local governments in a broad variety of matters. As a Director of the firm, Mr. Colombell’s practice focuses on consumer financial services, commercial litigation, construction law, landlord/tenant, personal injury, insurance and criminal defense.

Lucy G. Davis

Lucy Davis joined ThompsonMcMullan in October 2005 after seven years as the Assistant District Counsel to the United States Small Business Administration’s Richmond District Office (SBA).

Robert A. Dybing

Robert A. Dybing is a shareholder in ThompsonMcMullan. Mr. Dybing has a Martindale-Hubbell peer review rating of AV. He represents a wide range of clients including businesses, public officials, cities, counties, university officers, as well as private individuals.

Sherry A. Fox

Sherry A. Fox joined ThompsonMcMullan in September 2006, after graduating from Washington and Lee School of Law in May 2006, where she served as the Managing Events Editor of the Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice.

Richard L. Grier

Mr. Grier joined ThompsonMcMullan in 2004 as a Principal. Previously, he was a partner in the Richmond office of Troutman Sanders, LLP (formerly Mays & Valentine, L.L.P.) where he served as a partner for 27 years. His practice involves the business and income tax aspects of small to medium sized businesses and their owners.

Paul G. Izzo

Mr. Izzo has been in private practice, with substantial emphasis on elder law, since 1990. His practice areas include estate planning for incapacity and long term care, appointment of guardians and conservators for incapacitated adults, administration of decedent’s estates, nursing home residents’ rights, and more.

Thomas D. Lane

Mr. Lane joined ThompsonMcMullan in December 2006. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Lane spent two years as an associate at BeatyTiller in Richmond, Virginia, where he practiced civil litigation, including insurance defense, products liability and personal injury.

Charles W. Laughlin

Mr. Laughlin has an extensive background in corporate organization, finance, and acquisitions, including negotiating, structuring, and closing debt and equity financings with large commercial banks, financial institutions, and venture capital lenders, necessary to support such acquisitions and capitalization of the acquiring companies.

Robert C. Lyne

Mr. Lyne became of counsel to ThompsonMcMullan in 1998, following his retirement as house counsel for Reynolds Metals Company, where he practiced intellectual property.

R. Shawn Majette

Mr. Majette directs the Firm’s elder law section. Mr. Majette is a 1976 graduate, magna cum laude, of the University of Richmond, with major concentrations in English and Economics.

Christopher M. Malone

A principal of ThompsonMcMullan since 1986, Mr. Malone became associated with ThompsonMcMullan in 1981. Mr. Malone currently serves as president and managing director of the firm.

C. Grice McMullan

Mr. McMullan has represented both developers and lenders in a wide array of commercial real estate projects including the formation of entities, the financing and leasing or sale of condominium and residential subdivision and/or apartment projects, office and warehouse projects, shopping centers and raw land.

Dewey B. Morris

Dewey Morris has represented banks and other creditors since 1967 in commercial loan transactions and in complying with federal and state consumer credit laws.

Robert R. Musick

Mr. Musick concentrates his practice in the areas of: Consumer Financial Services, Business Entities and Transactions, and Civil and Commercial Litigation.

Adam R. Nelson

Mr. Nelson represents individual and business clients in commercial transactions.

William D. Prince IV

William Prince joined ThompsonMcMullan in September 2009, after clerking for The Honorable Jackson L. Kiser, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.

David R. Ruby

David Ruby represents clients in a wide variety of bankruptcy and creditors’ rights matters. In addition, he represents clients in financial, business, transactional, commercial, tax and non-profit matters.

Jennifer F. Sullivan

Since joining the firm Ms. Sullivan has practiced in the following areas: Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation,Contract Disputes, Estates and Trusts, Property, Real Estate, and Landlord-Tenant Law.

Neil S. Talegaonkar

Neil Talegaonkar joined ThompsonMcMullan in 1999. As a director with the firm, Mr. Talegaonkar’s practice focuses on employment law, commercial litigation, and construction law.

John B. Thompson

A 1961 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Engineering and a 1967 graduate of its School of Law, Mr. Thompson entered private practice in 1972 where he initially engaged in the general practice of law involving both civil and criminal matters.

Wilson R. Trice

Wilson Trice has extensive experience in the representation of parties in commercial lending, commercial leasing, and other commercial financing transactions, including syndicated bank loans, leveraged leases, synthetic leases, variable rate demand note issues (taxable and tax-exempt), letters of credit and factoring of accounts receivable.

William W. Tunner

Billy Tunner is a civil litigator and trial attorney, with over 15 years of experience. He is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell and named in Virginia Business magazine as one of the Legal Elite in Civil Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Sarah B. Warner

Ms. Warner’s practice focuses on business organizations and finance and corporate transactions.

Robert A. Warwick

Mr. Warwick became joined ThompsonMcMullan in 2001, after leaving as Tax Counsel for Reynolds Metals Company, where he practiced for 16 years.

Andrea J. Yoak

Ms. Yoak’s practice focuses on elder law and disability planning, estate planning and administration, and fiduciary and chancery litigation.