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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
19 Jan 2007
Ottinger Receives VBA Sandra P. Thompson Award
NORFOLK, VA.
Vandeventer Black attorney Richard H. Ottinger received the Virginia Bar Association (VBA) Young Lawyers Division’s prestigious Sandra P. Thompson Award at the VBA Annual Meeting on January 19. The award, previously known as the Fellows Award until it was renamed in 2002, recognizes an individual for outstanding work and long-term service to VBA.
Ottinger concentrates his law practice in commercial litigation with a particular focus on products liability defense, as well as commercial and private property disputes and is based in Vandeventer Black’s Norfolk office.
Ottinger received a B.A. from Boston University and a J.D. from The College of William & Mary School of Law. He is a 2002 graduate of the Sorenson Institute of Political Leadership.
Ottinger has also received the Virginia State Bar’s prestigious R. Edwin Burnette, Jr. Young Lawyer of the Year award (2003) and the Norfolk & Portsmouth Bar Association’s Walter E. Hoffman Community Service Award (2002). He was selected as one of Hampton Roads’ Top Forty Under Forty for 2002 by Inside Business magazine and as one of “Virginia’s Legal Elite” Young Lawyers by Virginia Business magazine (2004). Richard was also recognized as a VBA Community Servant Charter Member (2005).
The 2007 conference kicked off VBA’S Young Lawyers Division’s 50th anniversary. For more information on VBA visit www.vba.org. For more information visit www.vanblk.com.
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