After the plaintiff—a tractor-trailer driver employed by an interstate motor carrier—slipped and fell in the defendant’s tractor-trailer service area while having his tractor’s oil changed, the plaintiff received workers’ compensation benefits. The plaintiff then filed suit against the defendant in Virginia Circuit Court, seeking over a million dollars in damages. The plaintiff’s employer had an… Read more »

After Phil Anderson and Andy Gerrish obtained summary judgment for their attorney client in a legal-malpractice matter pending in Virginia Circuit Court, the plaintiff appealed. The plaintiff/appellant’s petition for appeal asserted that the circuit court erred when it concluded that the facts were undisputed and in applying the law. After considering of the petition and… Read more »

Andy Gerrish has been appointed to the Virginia State Bar Lawyer Insurance Committee. The committee monitors and evaluates the market for lawyer malpractice insurance in Virginia and makes recommendations to the executive committee and council on whether the Virginia State Bar should endorse a particular underwriter of insurance, and  if so, on what terms and… Read more »

Frith Anderson + Peake is proud to announce that Andy Gerrish has been honored as a member of the 2018 Class of Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s Up and Coming Lawyers. This statewide award recognizes lawyers across the commonwealth who are making their mark within their first 10 years of practice. According to Virginia Lawyer’s Weekly, these are… Read more »

Frith Anderson + Peake is proud to announce that Andrew Gerrish has been appointed to serve as the Virginia State Bar Young Lawyers Conference’s District Representative for the Eighth District. The Virginia State Bar Young Lawyers Conference (“YLC”) functions as “a bar within a bar,” focusing its efforts on the special interests and concerns of… Read more »

FA+P’s attorney client drafted a property-settlement agreement at the direction of the plaintiff. The plaintiff claimed the agreement was negligently drafted; she filed suit, alleging legal malpractice against FA+P’s client. The plaintiff, however, admitted that she never read the PSA before she endorsed it. On a motion for summary judgment, the Salem Circuit Court held… Read more »

Attorneys Phil Anderson and Andrew Gerrish recently received partial summary judgment on behalf of a commercial-roofing contractor in Roanoke City Circuit Court. In a series of two letter opinions, the last one issued on May 30, 2018, the Roanoke City Circuit Court granted partial summary judgment for FA+P’s client, capping the client’s liability to the… Read more »

The Journal of Civil Litigation recently published a letter opinion authored by the Hon Charles L. Ricketts III of the Staunton Circuit Court. Judge Ricketts’s July 20, 2017 letter opinion granted summary judgment on counts I (breach of contract) and V (declaratory judgment) of the plaintiffs’ complaint against Frith Anderson + Peake’s condominium association client…. Read more »

After a bench trial in Roanoke City Circuit Court, Frith Anderson + Peake and an Am Law 100 firm from Washington, D.C. obtained a $13-million judgment on behalf of three Virginia companies and a Panamanian corporation. The defendant, a former officer of the entities, initially moved to dismiss the matter for lack of personal jurisdiction…. Read more »

Andrew S. Gerrish has joined the Board of Directors for St. John Episcopal Church’s Community Youth Program. Community Youth Program is a 501(c)(3) non-profit program providing enriching after-school, summer, and leadership programs for at-risk Roanoke-area youth in grades 4-8. The mission of CYP is to encourage learning and the development of a positive self-image, and to… Read more »