Four Attorneys from MichieHamlett Named to Virginia Super Lawyers 2009

PRESS RELEASE - June 30, 2009

James P. Cox III, Edward B. Lowry, M. Bryan Slaughter, and Ronald R. Tweel have recently been named to the Virginia Super Lawyers 2009 listing.

James P. Cox III has been listed in Super Lawyers since 2006. He practices in the areas of estate planning and administration, estate litigation, and real estate. Cox has been with the firm since he began practicing law in 1983. In addition to his practice, Cox is the current editor of the four volume treatise Harrison on Wills and Administration for Virginia and West Virginia. He is also the editor of and contributing author to The Estate and Trust Administration in Virginia handbook published by Virginia CLE, and a former contributing editor to Guide to Legal Research in Virginia, and various publications for Virginia CLE. He lectures frequently throughout the state at seminars for attorneys and groups on topics involving estate planning, estate administration and real estate.

Edward B. Lowry engages in a statewide commercial litigation practice. Lowry has been with the firm since he began practicing law in July, 1971. He also handles a wide variety of commercial transactions and negotiations. His litigation experience includes matters involving business torts, construction law, securities arbitration, employment, contract, real estate and banking laws. Lowry is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the American Bar Foundation, and the Virginia Law Foundation.

Among a variety of positions with the Virginia State Bar, Lowry was president from June 1997-June 1998; a member of the Bar Council, the governing body of the legal profession in the Commonwealth, from 1989-1995; and a member of its Executive Committee from 1994-1998. In 1997, he served as co-chair of the Southern Conference of Bar Presidents. He was also President of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association from 1988-1990.

M. Bryan Slaughter was named a “Rising Star” in Super Lawyers magazine in 2007. Slaughter concentrates his practice primarily in the areas of unsafe products. He also tries cases involving catastrophic injury arising out of truck and auto accidents, and medical malpractice. He focuses on child safety; he writes a regular blog on safety on http://charlottesville.injuryboard.com/.

In July 2004, Slaughter obtained the largest verdict in history for any person injured in a ski-related accident. A jury awarded $8.3 million to his client, a 17-year old girl who suffered serious brain and other injuries, due to the negligence of a ski resort. (See Grigg v. Wintergreen Resort, et al. in Case Results section.) Slaughter is the past Chairman of the Products Liability Section of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association. He is also the Past President of its Young Lawyers Section. During his presidency, the Young Lawyers received The Robert J. Bonsignore Public Service Award for promoting and performing public service through the production of the video "Road To Justice." In addition, Slaughter represented "pro bono" (without pay) numerous victims of 9/11 through the program "Trial Lawyers Care." He is a member of both the Virginia and West Virginia State Bars.

Ronald R. Tweel has been listed in Super Lawyers since 2006. He concentrates primarily in the practice of domestic relations plus some personal clients. He graduated from Hampden Sydney College in 1968, Magna Cum Laude, and from the University of Virginia Law School in 1971. In 1979 he was appointed substitute judge for the Sixteenth District and remained there until 2003 when he resigned in protest of the Iraq invasion.

Tweel taught at various times at the University of Virginia School of Law. He is the Past Chairman of the Family Law Section of the Virginia State Bar and of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association. He was selected into the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the American College of Family Trial Lawyers, is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation. He was recently selected to be a member of the Virginia Bar Council.

Super Lawyers is a listing of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. In selecting attorneys for Super Lawyers, Law & Politics employs a rigorous, multiphase process. Peer nominations and evaluations are combined with third party research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. Selections are made on an annual, state-by-state basis.

The objective is to create a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of outstanding attorneys that can be used as a resource for attorneys and consumers searching for legal counsel. The Super Lawyers selection process involves three basic steps: creation of the candidate pool; evaluation of candidates by the research department; and peer evaluation by practice area.

Super Lawyers is published as a special supplement in leading newspapers and city and regional magazines across the country. Super Lawyers magazine, featuring articles about attorneys named to the Super Lawyers list, is distributed to all attorneys in the state or region, the lead corporate counsel of Russell 3000 companies, and the ABA-approved law school libraries.

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