Roanoke’s Woods Rogers announces merger with Norfolk-based law firm | Business Local

The new consolidated organization, to be recognized as Woods Rogers Vandeventer Black, will be among Virginia’s biggest, according to a information release.

“With the intent of functioning as a put together firm as immediately as doable, firm leaders are moving forward to finalize the organizational composition and execute integration plans,” the launch claimed, including that the new team “will become one of Virginia’s greatest law companies with more than 130 attorneys and a complete workforce of more than 250 persons.”

Woods Rogers Vandeventer Black will have Virginia offices in Roanoke, Norfolk, Richmond, Lynchburg and Charlottesville, with extra locations in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Hamburg, Germany.

Woods Rogers President Daniel Summerlin, Board of Directors Chairman Victor Cardwell and Chief Fiscal Officer Autumn Visser will retain people titles in the new firm, according to the news release.

Cardwell is at this time president of the Virginia Bar Affiliation. Previously this calendar year, the gavel was handed around to Cardwell by Vandeventer Black’s Richard Ottinger, who served as VBA president in 2021. The put together organization can count 10 attorneys who have served as VBA president.

At the moment, Virginia Business enterprise ranks Woods Rogers, which has offices in Roanoke’s Wells Fargo Tower, as No. 7 and Vandeventer Black as No. 12 of the premier regulation corporations in Virginia.

Equally corporations date from late 19th century in their communities.