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Cantor, Stoneburner, Ford, Grana & Buckner, P.C. ==History== Cantor, Stoneburner, Ford, Grana & Buckner is a United States law firm based in Richmond, Virginia. The firm has 6 attorneys, 16 employees, and was founded in 2009. The firm can trace its roots to July, 1979, when Irv Cantor and Tom Rilee, having just completed clerkships with the Virginia Supreme Court, started the law firm of Rilee and Cantor. In 1981, Bruce Arkema and Steve Edmonds joined the firm, and the firm’s name changed to Rilee, Cantor, Arkema & Edmonds. Irv Cantor was in charge of the law firm’s personal injury litigation, handling primarily insurance defense work. In the mid 1980s, Mr. Cantor made the decision to handle exclusively plaintiff cases and discontinued his insurance defense practice. The firm hired its first associate, Stanley K. Joynes, in the early 1980s. In 1987, Mr. Joynes and Rilee, Cantor, Arkema & Edmonds was appointed as counsel for the future claimants in the Dalkon Shield bankruptcy case pending in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The Dalkon Shield litigation went on for several years and was a landmark case in mass tort/bankruptcy law. In 1991, after the break-up of the well known Richmond law firm of Browder, Russell, several of that firm’s trial lawyers joined Rilee, Cantor, Arkema & Edmonds, and the firm’s name changed to Rilee, Cantor and Russell. Among the lawyers who joined the firm was Aubrey Ford, who had been the head of the litigation section of Browder, Russell. The firm grew to almost 25 lawyers. However, after several years, all of the medical malpractice defense lawyers from Browder, Russell left the firm as the plaintiff personal injury practice, still headed by Mr. Cantor, continued to grow. The firm then changed its name to Cantor, Arkema. Shortly thereafter, Lewis Stoneburner, a veteran trial lawyer with substantial experience and success in plaintiff medical malpractice cases, joined the firm. During the 90s and early 2000s, Cantor, Arkema had two distinct practice areas: a business group and a plaintiff litigation group. The plaintiff litigation group included, among others, Irv Cantor, Lewis Stoneburner, Aubrey Ford, Stephanie Grana, and Elliott Buckner. The lawyers in the plaintiff litigation group consistently achieved verdicts and settlements that were listed among the highest in Virginia and were voted into leadership roles in several state and national plaintiff’s trial bar associations, including the presidency of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association,〔(Virginia Trial Lawyers Association )〕 the Virginia Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates,〔(American Board of Trial Advocates )〕 and the Metro Woman's Bar Association.〔(Metro Woman's Bar Association )〕 Some of the significant cases handled by the group in the 90s included recoveries that were the largest ever recorded in the particular jurisdictions where the lawsuits were brought, including a 5.95 million dollar recovery in a medical malpractice case in a rural North Carolina county and a 4.5 million dollar recovery in a motor vehicle case in a rural Virginia county. In the early-2000s, the group achieved numerous other significant results, including a 5.6 million dollar verdict in a motor vehicle case, a 5 million dollar recovery in an industrial explosion case, a 5 million dollar recovery in a motorcycle accident case, and a 4.4 million dollar verdict in a medical malpractice case. The lawyers were not the only members of the firm to achieve national recognition. In 2008, Lori Tracoma, who has been a personal injury assistant with the firm since the early 1980s, was named “The National Paralegal of the Year” by the American Association for Justice〔(American Association for Justice )〕 at the AAJ National Conference in Philadelphia. In 2009, the plaintiff trial lawyers decided to form their own law firm, dedicated exclusively to serious plaintiff injury, malpractice and commercial cases. The newly organized firm was named Cantor, Stoneburner, Ford, Grana & Buckner, P.C. All of the firm’s partners are listed in “Best Lawyers in America”, and the firm is listed as a top tier law firm in personal injury, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, and employment law by US News and World Report’s survey of “Best Law Firms in the United States”. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cantor, Stoneburner, Ford, Grana & Buckner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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