Michele A. Mulligan
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Michele Mulligan concentrates in the areas of professional liability defense, insurance coverage, commercial litigation, community associations and adoption law. She has represented 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 to businesses related to a variety of litigation. Ms. Mulligan represents homeowners associations in a wide range of issues and in litigation. She also represents families in adoptions.
Ms. Mulligan was previously a partner with the firm of Thompson, Smithers, Newman, Wade & Childress, and Childress, Gould & Russell. She 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 its discipline section.
- Accountants
- Lawyers
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Hospitals
- Nursing homes
- Corporations
- Community Associations
- Adoptive Parents
- Civil Litigation Blog
- Community Associations Blog
- Annual Speaker at MLM Seminar
- 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.
Education
- Mary Washington College, B.A., 1987
- T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond, J.D., 1990
- University of Richmond, M.B.A., 1999
- Virginia, 1990
- United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia
- United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Virginia State Bar
- Richmond Bar Association
- John Marshall Inn of Court
- Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys
- Community Associations Institute ("CAI") - member of Virginia Legislature Action Comittee
- Metropolitan Richmond Women's Bar Association
- Member of Legislative and Financial Committee
- Cambridges' Who's Who Among Executives, Professionals and Entrepreneurs.
- Wellesley Homeowners Association
- Neighborhood Representative
- Past Government Affairs Committee Member and Chairman
- Past Secretary of the Board of Directors
- Past President of the Board of Directors, 1997-2005