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Michele A. Mulligan
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Michele Mulligan concentrates in the areas of professional liability defense, insurance coverage, commercial litigation, corporate law, community associations and adoption law. She represents accountants, lawyers, physicians, nurses, hospitals, and nursing homes in a wide range of claims concerning their provision of professional services and related matters. She also provides insurance carriers with opinions concerning insurance coverage and represents them in litigation. She provides advice and services related to business matters and represents companies in a variety of litigation. Michele represents homeowners associations in a wide range of issues and in litigation. She also represents families in adoptions.

Michele was previously a partner with the firm of Thompson, Smithers, Newman, Wade & Childress, and Childress, Gould & Russell. Michele has served as a claims attorney with a professional liability carrier where she investigated and evaluated professional and general liability claims, determined coverage, directed litigation, and negotiated and resolved claims. Prior to that time she worked with the Board of Medicine in their discipline section.

EXPERIENCE
  • Civil Litigation
  • Professional Liability Defense
  • Bankruptcy and Creditor's Rights
  • Corporate Law

Representative clients include:

    • Accountants
    • Lawyers
    • Physicians
    • Nurses
    • Hospitals
    • Nursing homes
    • Corporations
    • Community Associations

Admitted to Practice:

  • All state circuit courts in the Commonwealth of Virginia
  • Virginia Court of Appeals; the Virginia Supreme Court
  • United States District Courts for Virginia, Eastern and Western Divisions
  • United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
  • United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Professional Associations & Voluntary Bar Memberships

  • Virginia State Bar
  • Richmond Bar Association
  • Henrico Bar Association
  • John Marshall Inn of Court
  • Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys
  • Community Associations Institute ("CAI") - regularly attends local CAI events and annual national law seminar

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EDUCATION
  • B.A., Mary Washington College
  • J.D., T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond
  • M.B.A., University of Richmond

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ARTICLES / SEMINARS
  • Preventing Legal Malpractice Claims in Personal Injury and General Practice, ANLIR-sponsored CLE programs, Spring 1999.
  • Preventing Legal Malpractice Claims in Personal Injury and General Practice, ANLIR-sponsored CLE programs, Spring 1998.
  • Avoiding Malpractice Claims in Business Transactions, Drafting Wills, Trusts & Powers of Attorney, ANLIR-sponsored CLE programs, Spring 1997.
  • Attorneys as Settlement Agent Under CRESPA and the Role of the Virginia State Bar, Virginia Law Foundation, 15th Annual Real Estate Practice Seminar, May 1997. 
  • Preventing Legal Malpractice:  Trial Practice, ANLIR-sponsored CLE programs, Spring 1996.
  • Avoiding Legal Malpractice . . . Commercial Real Estate & Business Law, Malpractice Issues in Corporate and Domestic Practices, ANLIR-sponsored CLE programs, Spring 1995.
  • Avoiding Malpractice in Criminal Law Practice, Preventing Legal Malpractice Claims & Ethics Complaints in General Practice, ANLIR-sponsored CLE programs, Spring 1994.
  • Malpractice & Ethics Problems in Personal Injury Practice, ANLIR-sponsored CLE programs, Spring 1993.

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CIVIC SERVICE
  • Wellesley Homeowners Association, Neighborhood Representative, Past Government Affairs Committee Member and Chairman, Past Secretary of the Board of Directors and Past President of the Board of Directors, 1997-2005.

 

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