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On January 27, 2017, the new administration issued an Executive Order which suspends "entry into the United States" of individuals from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen for 90 days (and possibly longer). 

Two Long-Established Richmond-Based Law Firms Announce Merger

Richmond-based law firms McCandlish Holton and Morris & Morris announce a merger of the two firms, to take effect December 1, 2016.  The newly combined firm will have 39 lawyers, offering clients a full range of legal services with specialties in business and corporate law, commercial real estate law, civil litigation in state and federal courts, workers' compensation, products liability, healthcare, and immigration.  Both firms have had a presence in Virginia in excess of twenty-five years.

Amanda Tapscott, a Director in our Workers' Compensation practice group, was recently named chair of the Worker's Compensation Section of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys (VADA).

We are pleased to announce that four of the firm's attorneys have been selected for the 2015 Readers' Choice listing published by the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Congratulations to Mark B. Rhoads and Jonathan L. Moore.

McCandlish Holton attorney Thomas C. Foster spoke along with Professor John Pagan to the Lewis F. Powell, Jr. American Inn of Court at the University of Richmond regarding the Fourth Circuit decision in Bostic v. Schaeffer, 760 F.3d 352 (July 28, 2014), legalizing same sex marriage in Virginia and the effects on constitutional law, family law and employee benefits.

McCandlish Holton is pleased to announce that Virginia Business has named two of the firm's attorneys in its 2014 Legal Elite listing. The publication recognized Michael H. Gladstone in Civil Litigation and Samantha Stecker Otero in Labor/Employment.