Tremblay & Smith, LLP

105-109 East High Street
Charlottesville, Virginia 22902View Map


 
Practice Areas:
General Civil Trial and Appellate Practice. Commercial Litigation, Communications, Construction Litigation, Contractor Disputes, Business Formation, Business Start-Up, Contract and Business Litigation, Small Business, General Counseling, Boundary Disputes, Real Estate Litigation, Personal Injury, Automobile Accidents, Trucking Accidents, Wrongful Death, Catastrophic Accidents and Injuries, Medical Malpractice, Professional Malpractice, Corporate, Employment Law, Negligence Law and Litigation, Family Law, Divorce, Child Custody, Visitation Rights, Collaborative Law, Military Divorce.
 
Year Established: 1967
 
Firm Size: 8
 
Representative Clients:
Sieg Distributing Co. (Anheuser-Busch Distributors); Kloeckner Pentaplast of America, Inc.; Virginia Broadcasting Corp.; Farmington Country Club; Management Services Corporation of Charlottesville; InterTrans Carrier Co.; ALLTEL Communications; Verizon Communications; U.S. Cellular.
 
Office Hours:
Monday: 08:00 AM - 05:30 PM
Tuesday: 08:00 AM - 05:30 PM
Wednesday: 08:00 AM - 05:30 PM
Thursday: 08:00 AM - 05:30 PM
Friday: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Saturday: By Appointment Only
Sunday: By Appointment Only
 
MEMBERS OF FIRM
 
John K. Taggart, III (Member) born Tupelo, Mississippi, February 18, 1943; admitted to bar, 1969, Virginia and U.S. Tax Court; 1974, U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. Education: Birmingham-Southern College (B.A., 1965); University of Virginia (LL.B., 1968). Delta Theta Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa. Commissioner in Chancery, Albemarle County Circuit Court. Member: Charlottesville-Albemarle and Virginia Bar Associations; Virginia State Bar; American Judicature Society; Virginia Trial Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Family Law; Divorce; Civil Law; Collaborative Law.
 
M.E. (Dick) Gibson, Jr. (Member) born Charlottesville, Virginia, December 30, 1946; admitted to bar, 1972, Virginia, U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. Education: University of Virginia (B.A., 1969; J.D., 1972). Member: Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association; Virginia State Bar. Practice Areas: Business Law; Commercial Litigation; Employment Law; Communications Law; Zoning Law; Land Use.
 
Thomas E. Albro (Member) born New York, N.Y., September 17, 1947; admitted to bar, 1972, Virginia; 1975, South Carolina and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1977, U.S. District Courts, Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia; 1983, U.S. Court of Military Appeals; 1984, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Cornell University (A.B., cum laude, 1969); University of Virginia (J.D., 1972). Lecturer, Trial Advocacy, University of Virginia School of Law, 1985-2000. Councilman, City of Charlottesville, 1978-1982. Virginia State Board for Community Colleges, 1994-2002. Boyd-Graves Conference (Chairman, 1998-2000). Fellow: Virginia Law Foundation; American College of Trial Lawyers; International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Member: Charlottesville-Albemarle and Virginia Bar Associations; Virginia State Bar (Chairman, Litigation Section Board of Governors, 2002-2003; Chairman, Standing Committee on Lawyer Advertising and Solicitation, 1996-1999); South Carolina Bar; Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Governors; President, 1990-1991). [CAPT., JAGC, USNR-R]. Practice Areas: Medical and Professional Malpractice Law; Personal Injury Law; Defamation Law; Civil Litigation.
 
R. Lee Livingston (Member) born Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 11, 1968; admitted to bar, 1993, Virginia; U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. Education: College of William & Mary (B.A., 1990; J.D., 1993). Judicial Clerk to Hon. B. Waugh Crigler, U.S. Magistrate Judge, 1993-1994. Adjunct Faculty and Lecturer, "Trial Evidence: Principles and Practice," and "Trial Advocacy," University of Virginia School of Law, 2002—. Publications: Co-Author, "Evidence for the Trial Lawyer," Matthew Bender & Company, Inc., 2007. Member: Virginia State Bar (Member, Litigation Section Board of Governors, 2003— and Chair, 2007-2008; Editor, Litigation Section Newsletter, 1997-2003; Mandatory Continuing Education Board, 2003—, Vice Chair, 2006—); Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (Board of Governors, 1999—; VTLA Foundation Board, 2004—); Virginia Supreme Court Appellate Rules Advisory Committee, 2005-2008; Virginia Supreme Court Electronic Filing Committee, 2006—; Boyd Graves Conference; Virginia College of Trial Advocacy (Board Member, 2000—; Faculty, 2001—); American Association for Justice; Thomas Jefferson Inn of Court (Secretary, 1996-1997); Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association. Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice; Defamation; Automobile Accidents and Injuries; Professional Malpractice; Personal Injury; Civil Litigation.
 
Patricia D. McGraw (Member) born Minot, North Dakota, March 17, 1958; admitted to bar, 1983, Colorado; 1992, Virginia; U.S. District Court, District of Colorado; U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. Education: Stanford University (B.A., with distinction, 1980); University of California at Berkeley (J.D., 1983). Phi Beta Kappa. Member: Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association; Virginia State Bar; Virginia Trial Lawyers Associations; American Association for Justice. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Business Law.
 
Peter J. Caramanis (Member) born Newton, Massachusetts, March 12, 1972; admitted to bar, 1999, Virginia; U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. Education: University of Virginia (B.A., 1994); University of Richmond (J.D., 1998). Member: Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association; Virginia State Bar; Virginia Trial Lawyers Association; American Association for Justice. Practice Areas: Business Law; Zoning, Planning and Land Use; Communications Law; Civil Litigation; Commercial Litigation.
 
ASSOCIATES
 
Nathan J.D. Veldhuis (Associate) born Hershey, Pennsylvania, May 23, 1974; admitted to bar, 2004, Virginia and U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia. Education: Liberty University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1998); University of Virginia (M.A., Biomedical Ethics, 2001); George Mason University School of Law (J.D., 2004). Adjunct Faculty, Lecturer, University of Virginia School of Law (Mental Health Law Clinic); Adjunct Associate, Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia, 2005-2006. Law Intern for Hon. B. Waugh Crigler, U.S. Magistrate Judge, Western District of Virginia, 2002-2003; Evaluator, Crisis Intervention Team Taskforce for Developing Alternatives for the Mentally Ill in the Criminal Justice System, 2005-2007. Member: Virginia State Bar (Member, Young Lawyer's Conference; Chair, Mental Health Law Committee; Co-Circuit Representative, 16th Judicial Circuit; Pro Bono Commission of the Young Lawyer's Conference, Litigation Section); Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (Chair, Ethics and Professionalism Committee; Board Member, Amicus Curiae, Public Affairs and CLE Committees; Vice-Chair, Young Trial Lawyers Section); Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association (Member, Young Lawyers Division); Virginia Bar Association (National Moot Court Committee, Civil Litigation Section, Young Lawyers Division); American Association for Justice (Member, Civil Litigation Section and Young Lawyers Conference); Thomas Jefferson Inn of Court; Mensa. Practice Areas: Defamation Law; Professional Malpractice; Mental Health Law; Medical Malpractice; Civil Litigation; Business Law.
 
Ernest A. Harper (Associate) born Palo Alto, California, January 26, 1965; admitted to bar, 1994, Maryland; 2004, District of Columbia; 2008, Virginia. Education: United States Naval Academy (B.S., 1987); George Washington University (J.D., 1994). Professor of Criminal Law, U. S. Army Legal Center and School, 2002-2005. Author: "Search and Seizure: Defending the Citadel of Reasonableness," The Army Lawyer, April, 2005; "Search and Seizure: A Year in Review, The Army Lawyer," July, 2004; "A Call for a Definition of Method of Warfare in Relation to the Chemical Weapons Convention," 48 Naval Law Review 132. Member: Virginia State Bar; Maryland State Bar Association, Inc.; District of Columbia Bar. [Lt. Col., U. S. Marine Corps, 1987-2007]. Practice Areas: Family Law(90%); Divorce; Domestic Relations; Marital Agreements; Military Divorce; Postnuptial Agreements; Premarital Agreements; Separation Agreements; Military Law(10%).
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