Super Lawyers Rising Stars 2012 Lists Seven Vandeventer Black Attorneys
Super Lawyers Rising Stars 2012 Lists Seven Vandeventer Black Attorneys NORFOLK, VA. – Seven Vandeventer Black LLP attorneys have been named to the Virginia Rising Stars list as the top up-and-coming attorneys in Virginia for 2012. Each year, no more than 2 ½ percent of Virginia lawyers receive this honor. The selection for this respected […]
New Math SOLs Set Higher Standard
Virginia schools are at the height of the testing season as students in grades 3-12 take Standards of Learning (SOL) tests in English, mathematics, history and science. The SOLs, which have been a rite of spring since 1998, measure whether students and schools are meeting the commonwealth’s standards for academic achievement. The mathematics SOL tests […]
Super Lawyers 2012 Lists 17 Vandeventer Black Attorneys
Super Lawyers 2012 Lists 17 Vandeventer Black Attorneys NORFOLK, VA. – Seventeen lawyers from Vandeventer Black LLP have been named to the Virginia Super Lawyers list for the top attorneys in Virginia for 2012. No more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by Super Lawyers. Vandeventer Black lawyers receiving this […]
DEFENSE CUTS WOULD COST MORE THAN 1 MILLION JOBS
Last week I spoke at the National Association of Manufacturers’ press conference on the effects that defense spending cuts will have on Virginia. Did you know that one in every five jobs in VA is directly tied to defense spending? Defense spending in Virginia is approximately $ 60 billion annually and supports nearly a million […]
Virginia is emerging as space transportation hub
In the afterglow of success of billionaire business entrepreneur Elon Musk’s launch of California-based SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket booster carrying the Dragon spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station; Virginia’s spaceport will soon be the site of the alternative Antares booster set for the first static (hold down) test-firing of the booster’s twin engines along […]