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Impending Legalization of Marijuana in Virginia Raises New Issues for Workers’ Compensation Compensability

July 19, 2021

Tags: Workers' Compensation, Marijuana Law

McCandlish Holton Announces Observance of Juneteenth

McCandlish Holton has announced an early closure of the firm on Friday June 18 in order to allow firm employees to observe the Juneteenth holiday following the designation of Juneteenth as a federal holiday. President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law after the passage of a bill by both the US Senate and the House of Representatives making it the 12th federal holiday. Juneteenth has also been known as Jubilee Day, Black Independence Day, and Emancipation Day.

June 18, 2021

Tags: News, Litigation, Updates

Immigration Attorney Jennifer Minear Completes Tenure as AILA President

Jennifer Minear has completed her one-year term as the 74th president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the largest association of immigration attorneys in the world, and completed her sixth year as an elected member of AILA’s Executive Committee. Jennifer will remain as an adviser to the Executive Committee for the coming year as immediate past president, as well as a voting member of the AILA Board of Governors and chair of the Nominating Committee that nominates AILA’s next crop of national elected leaders for next year. Jennifer and AILA's new president, Allan Orr, look back on the unusual circumstances of the past year and discuss the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in the most recent episode of Connection Point, AILA’s mini-series newly produced during Minear’s tenure. [Hear Connection Point Episode #3]

June 17, 2021

Tags: News, Immigration Law

Rational Middle Interviews Jennifer Minear About Leading AILA as President During Challenging Time for Immigration

Outgoing president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, gives Rational Middle podcast host Melissa Brannan the lowdown on the strategies, challenges, and hopes facing immigration lawyers as a result of the Trump administration in podcast Episode 83: ‘‘Immigration Law in the Shadow of Trump with Jennifer Minear.’’

Jennifer discusses the essential role AILA membership serves to immigration attorneys, the clarity of mission in immigration advocacy during the Trump administration, challenges reversing changes made during the Trump administration, and

June 14, 2021

Tags: News, Immigration Law

Civil Litigation Attorney Cam Beck Ranked in Chambers USA 2021

D. Cameron Beck, Jr. is recognized again by Chambers and Partners in their USA Guide 2021 for General Commercial Litigation in Virginia. The Chambers review states:

May 20, 2021

Tags: News, Litigation, Updates

10 McCandlish Holton Attorneys Recognized by Super Lawyers® 2021

The 2021 edition of Virginia/West Virginia Super Lawyers® recognizes 5 attorneys in the category of ‘‘Super Lawyers’’ and 5 attorneys in the category of ‘‘Rising Stars’’ in 6 practice areas:

Civil Litigation- Defense
Business Litigation
Insurance Coverage
Employment & Labor
Transportation/Maritime
Workers’ Compensation

Among those recognized by Super Lawyers® are the trial attorneys who prevailed in defending the Commonwealth of Virginia’s moratorium on uranium mining in a constitutional takings case heard in Wise County, Virginia in July 2020: Cam Beck and Mike Gladstone.

Each year, lawyers are invited to nominate the top attorneys they have personally observed in action. Out of the 5 percent who are nominated, only about 2.5 percent are selected as Rising Stars. See McCandlish Holton's full Super Lawyers® profile here.

May 6, 2021

Tags: News, Updates, Super Lawyers

Court of Appeals: Pharmacies are Health Care Providers Subject to One Year Statute of Limitations

WORKERS COMPENSATION CASE WATCH

In Summit Pharmacy, Inc. v. Costco Wholesale, Record No. 0970-20-1 (Mar. 30, 2021), the claimant was under a medical award. Summit Pharmacy (“Summit”) provided prescriptions to the claimant for her injury and the employer made partial payments to Summit for those prescriptions. Four years after Summit received its last partial payment from the employer, Summit filed a claim seeking full repayment.

Va. Code § 65.2-605.1 allows health care providers to file claims contesting the

April 30, 2021

Tags: Workers' Compensation, Workers' Compensation Case Watch

News Features Attorney Joe Moore and Family for Supporting Families Living Through Childhood Cancers

A WTVR and CBS 6 News Richmond article features attorney Joe Moore and his family in a recent "Heroes Among Us" column titled:

April 21, 2021

Tags: News, Updates, Community

Updates From The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission & General Assembly

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION DEFENSE DIGEST | FEB 2021

February 18, 2021

Tags: Workers' Compensation, Workers' Compensation Defense Digest, COVID-19, Coronavirus & Workers' Comp

Immigration Attorney Jennifer Minear Quoted in Financial Times Article About Continued Uncertainty for H-1B Holders

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Immigration attorney Jennifer Minear is quoted in the February 7, 2021 Financial Times article titled ‘‘Joe Biden’s Immigration Orders Leave Skilled Workers Guessing,’’authored by Aime Williams, highlighting the continued uncertainty for H-1B holders despite a change in presidential administration that has already made some decisive steps to change course on the Trump administration’s policy towards asylum seekers and refugees, and to remove limits on visas.

While the ban on new issuances of green cards and on visas frequently used by multinational companies is scheduled to expire in March, some immigration attorneys have inferred that by not rescinding them immediately, the Biden administration is

February 12, 2021

Tags: News, Immigration Law

News & Publications

Impending Legalization of Marijuana in Virginia Raises New Issues for Workers’ Compensation Compensability

McCandlish Holton Announces Observance of Juneteenth

Immigration Attorney Jennifer Minear Completes Tenure as AILA President

Rational Middle Interviews Jennifer Minear About Leading AILA as President During Challenging Time for Immigration

Civil Litigation Attorney Cam Beck Ranked in Chambers USA 2021

10 McCandlish Holton Attorneys Recognized by Super Lawyers® 2021

Court of Appeals: Pharmacies are Health Care Providers Subject to One Year Statute of Limitations

WORKERS COMPENSATION CASE WATCH

News Features Attorney Joe Moore and Family for Supporting Families Living Through Childhood Cancers

Updates From The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission & General Assembly

Immigration Attorney Jennifer Minear Quoted in Financial Times Article About Continued Uncertainty for H-1B Holders

MEDIA QUOTES

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