Frith Anderson + Peake is pleased to announce that 7 of our attorneys were recently recognized in the 2022 Virginia Business Legal Elite list for the following categories: Civil Litigation – Phillip Anderson, Andrew Gerrish, Katherine Londos, Sean Workowski Health Law – Matthew Kelley Labor/Employment Law – Nathan Schnetzler Young Lawyer – Glenn Williams Legal… Read more »

Eight attorneys at the law firm of Frith Anderson + Peake were selected by their peers for inclusion as 2022 Virginia Super Lawyers. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The patented selection process includes independent… Read more »

Ten attorneys at the law firm of Frith Anderson + Peake were selected by their peers for inclusion as 2021 Virginia Super Lawyers. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The patented selection process includes independent… Read more »

Andrew “Andy” S. Gerrish, a principal with the Roanoke law firm of Frith Anderson + Peake has been selected as the 2020 Young Lawyer of the Year by the Roanoke Bar Association. This award recognizes a current member of the Roanoke Bar Association that is an “outstanding young lawyer who has demonstrated dedicated service to our… Read more »

The Virginia State Bar Young Lawyers Conference’s Board of Governors awarded Andy Gerrish its 2020 Significant Service Award for his work as the Young Lawyers Conference’s District Representative for the Eighth District. The Young Lawyers Conference’s Eighth District includes the Twenty-third and Twenty-fifth Judicial Circuits. In addition to his service as a YLC District Representative,… Read more »

Ten attorneys at the law firm of Frith Anderson + Peake were selected by their peers for inclusion as 2020 Virginia Super Lawyers. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The patented selection process includes independent… Read more »

In April 2019, Phil Anderson and Andy Gerrish secured the dismissal of a slip-and-fall suit in Virginia circuit court. The plaintiff was a tractor-trailer driver who fell in a service bay of a tractor-trailer-maintenance shop while the shop was changing his oil. FA+P argued—and the trial court held—that the shop was not an “other party”… Read more »

After Phil Anderson and Andy Gerrish obtained the dismissal of all claims asserted against their attorney client in a legal-malpractice matter filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, the plaintiff appealed that dismissal to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. After the parties briefed the plaintiff’s appeal, the Fourth Circuit… Read more »

Frith Anderson + Peake is proud to announce the promotion of Andy Gerrish to partner. Andy joined FA+P in 2014 following clerkships with the judges of the First Judicial Circuit of Virginia in Chesapeake, Virginia, and the judges of the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit of Virginia in Roanoke, Virginia. Andy was a member of the 2018… Read more »

Plaintiff—a former client of FA+P’s attorney client—sued his former attorney and various federal defendants in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. Liberally construed for 12(b)(6) purposes, Plaintiff’s complaint asserted constitutional, fraud, emotional-distress, and legal-malpractice claims against the attorney. After the parties briefed FA+P’s 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss, the court dismissed Plaintiff’s… Read more »