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Jennifer Minear Urges Virginia Businesses to Speak Up About Legal Immigration Problems

Minear calls the situation “a frustrating game right now. You have to be prepared for how to play that game. It’s totally unpredictable.”

September 13, 2019

Tags: News, Immigration Law

9 McCandlish Holton Attorneys Named 2020 Best Lawyers In America

Nine lawyers from McCandlish Holton were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers In America© for 2020. The entire group of recognized attorneys have been continuously recognized for five years or longer.

August 15, 2019

Tags: News

Jennifer Minear Named AILA President-Elect

Jennifer Minear was elected to serve as the AILA President-Elect for the 2019-2020 term. Ms. Minear is a director in the Immigration Practice Group, where her practice focuses on employment-based immigration, with a particular emphasis on the healthcare sector, including J-1 waiver and green card processing for foreign medical graduates.

Ms. Minear has a long and active history with the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and held her first elected position in 2012 as a member of the Board of Governors. She is the

July 2, 2019

Tags: News, Immigration Law, AILA

McCandlish Holton Workers' Compensation Announces Attorney's Return

Jessica Hacker Trivizas returns home to McCandlish Holton's workers' compensation team after working on the NFL Concussion and BP Oil Spill settlements. Her background on these mass claims resolution programs gives her unique insight into the work of claims adjusters.

May 29, 2019

Tags: News, Workers' Compensation

18th Annual Workers’ Compensation Seminar

The Workers' Compensation practice group at McCandlish Holton is thrilled to announce our 18th Annual Workers' Compensation Seminar. The seminar is one of the premier industry events in the Mid-Atlantic Region-- a full day of useful information and continuing education free to adjusters, risk managers, employers, nurse case managers, and brokers. The event will take place September 26, 2019 in Richmond, Virginia.

May 17, 2019

Tags: News, Workers' Compensation

McCandlish Holton Attorneys Obtain Defense Verdict for Mutual Insurance Company in Jury Trial

Matthew Haynes and Brennan Morrissett obtained a defense verdict on behalf of a mutual insurance company in a Virginia Circuit Court jury trial. The plaintiff/insured filed a 1^st party suit against his homeowner’s insurer alleging breach of contract.

Plaintiff sought to recover more than $250,000 in alleged personal property losses and additional living expenses he claimed resulted from a fire that completely destroyed his residence. Plaintiff sought these amounts eighteen months after the fire, and in addition to

January 29, 2019

Tags: News, Litigation, Local Counsel, Updates, verdicts, Insurance Coverage

McCandlish Holton Attorneys Obtain Defense Verdict for Global Warehouse Retailer

Matthew Haynes and Brennan Morrissett obtained a defense verdict on behalf of a global warehouse retailer following a two day jury trial in the United States District Court in Baltimore, Maryland.

October 18, 2018

Tags: News, Litigation, Local Counsel, Updates

Beat the Heat: Defending and Preventing Heat Exposure Claims

Landscapers, surveyors, construction workers, groundskeepers, park rangers, farmworkers, and countless others spend their days working outside. But when do weather conditions become an actual risk of employment?

August 17, 2018

Tags: News, Workers' Compensation, Articles, Heat Exposure Claims, Beat the Heat

Jennifer Minear Interviewed by National Public Radio

McCandlish Holton director, Jennifer Minear, was recently interviewed by National Public Radio about the impact of the Trump administration’s travel ban on foreign students in the U.S.

July 23, 2018

Tags: News, Immigration Law

Jennifer Minear Interviewed in Mother Jones

Firm Director Jennifer Minear was recently interviewed in Mother Jones regarding changes in the adjudication of employment-based immigration petitions.

“We had already been seeing upticks in challenges by the government to legitimate petitions, denial of legitimate petitions, and crazy interpretations of the laws”

Read the full article here.

July 18, 2018

Tags: News, Immigration Law

News & Publications

Jennifer Minear Urges Virginia Businesses to Speak Up About Legal Immigration Problems

9 McCandlish Holton Attorneys Named 2020 Best Lawyers In America

Jennifer Minear Named AILA President-Elect

McCandlish Holton Workers' Compensation Announces Attorney's Return

18th Annual Workers’ Compensation Seminar

McCandlish Holton Attorneys Obtain Defense Verdict for Mutual Insurance Company in Jury Trial

McCandlish Holton Attorneys Obtain Defense Verdict for Global Warehouse Retailer

Beat the Heat: Defending and Preventing Heat Exposure Claims

Jennifer Minear Interviewed by National Public Radio

Jennifer Minear Interviewed in Mother Jones

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