2024 Small-Firm Conference and Regional Bench-Bar Forum

Legislative update – Terry Gilgore & Jed Arnold

Terry Gilgore
Delegate Terry G. Kilgore has been a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the citizens of the 1st legislative district, since he was first elected in 1993. As Delegate, Terry represents Scott and Lee Counties, part of Wise County, and the City of Norton. In 2022, Terry was elected to serve as the House Majority Leader. He also serves as a member of the House Committees on Courts of Justice, Commerce and Energy, and Rules. He is the Vice Chair of the Commerce and Energy Committee.
Terry serves on various boards and organizations in the Commonwealth, including the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission, the Coal and Energy Commission, and the Southwest Virginia Health Authority. He also serves on the Appalachian Region Interstate Compact Commission, Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Foundation, Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center and the Southwest Virginia Public Education Consortium.
Terry and his wife, Debbie, reside in Gate City, Virginia in Scott County. They have two grown children, Kayla and Kyle. They also recently welcomed their first grandchild, Nola. He practices law in Gate City and serves as the Rector of the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, VA

Jonathan Edward “Jed” Arnold
Jonathan Edward “Jed” Arnold is an attorney with Kilgore Law Office, P.L.L.C., a general practice firm. Arnold represents clients throughout Southwest Virginia, primarily in the 27th and 28th Judicial Circuits. He is a graduate of the Appalachian School of Law and Radford University. In 2023, he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates. He is currently in his second term and represents the 46th House District (Grayson, Smyth, Pulaski (part) and Wythe counties). Arnold serves on the House Courts of Justice and General Laws standing committees.
In 2024, the Speaker of the House appointed him to serve on the Virginia Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission, the Cannabis Oversight Commission, and the Department of Corrections Oversight Commission. His office is in Marion. He resides in Saltville with his wife, Melanie, and their son, Jack.

Judicial Squares: Moderator – Bruce Russell

Moderator – Bruce Russell
Bruce logs thousands of miles each to year traveling between the courthouses of the Western end of the Commonwealth. He thinks of himself as the modern evolution of the “Virginia Country Lawyer,” and his successful general practice encompasses criminal defense, traffic citations ranging from speeding tickets to DUI, domestic relations, plaintiff’s litigation including personal injury, and whatever other wrongs cry out for redress on a given day.

Education

• University of Richmond, School of Law, Richmond, Virginia
  • J.D
• University of Virginia McIntire Business Institute, Charlottesville, VA
  • B.A – 1997
• University of Virginia
  Bar Admissions
• Virginia Supreme Court, 2000
• U.S. Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, 2003
• U.S. District Court Western District of Virginia, 2003
  Professional Associations
• Virginia State Bar, Member, Executive Committee. Member, Bar Council
  (2021-Present), Present
• Leadership body of VSB Council, Present
• Member, 2024 VSB Strategic Planning Initiative, Present
• Member, Judicial Candidate Evaluation Committee (2020-23)
• Member, Bench-Bar Relations Committee (2020-Present), Vice-Chair (2023-
  Present), Present
• Faculty Member, Harry L. Carrico Professionalism Course (2023-Present),
  Present
• Boyd-Graves Conference, Invitation-only group of experienced, elite civil trial
  lawyers and judges. Steering Committee (2024-Present), Present
• Virginia Mountain Valley Lawyers’ Alliance, President Emeritus, Present
• Patrick Henry American Inn of Court, Founder and President
• Southwest Virginia Law Foundation, Founder and Chairman
• Russell County Bar, President (2013-Present), Present
• 28th Circuit Criminal Defense Bar, President (2019-Present), Present
• Southwest Virginia Legal Aid Society, Board Member
• Virginia Alpha Delta Phi Alumni Chapter, President
• Regional Bench-Bar Conference Planning Committee, Founding member
• Child Dependency Legal Representation Workgroup, Member
• University of Virginia Southwest Virginia Alumni Association, Board
  Member
• Watauga Elementary School P.T.O., President
• Highlands Soccer Club, Board Member and Legal Counsel
• Client-Centered Legal Services, Board Member
• Washington Co. Schools Superintendent’s Parental Advisory Committee
• Cumberland Plateau Planning District Committee Advisory Board
• Russell County Court Improvement Committee
• American Bar Association, Member, Law Practice Division Council
• American Bar Association, Member, Lawyer Leadership & Management
  Committee
• American Bar Association, Member, Outreach Committee
• American Bar Association, Member, Pro Bono & Public Service Committee
  Published Works
• Legal Desserts: Recipes For Celebrating Your Next Victory/Mourning Your
  Next Defeat, Virginia Lawyer, Pending March 2023
• Navigating Legal Deserts In Far Southwest Virginia, Virginia Lawyer,
  October 2023
• How Many Lawyers Does It Take To Move A Mountain?, Virginia Lawyer,
  August 2023
• Have You Considered Being a Leader in Your Local Bar?, Virginia Lawyer,
  June 2023
• Virginia Mountain/Valley Lawyers’ Alliance Annual Meeting Celebrates
  Service, Education, and Justice, Virginia Lawyer, February 2023
• Southwest Virginia Bench-Bar Conference Celebrates Ten Years of Bringing
  Together Lawyers, Judges, Virginia Lawyer, November 2022
• Southwest Virginia Bar Groups Bring Pro Bono to Law Day Events, Virginia
  Lawyer, October 2022
• Alternate Sentencing Dispositions in General District Court (Publication
  Pending)
• A Day At The Assizes: A Random Walk Through A Virginia District Court
  Setting (and Beyond) (Publication Pending)
• Practical Advice – Basics of Representing Small Businesses (Publication
  Pending)
• Practical Advice – Basics of Representing Consumers in Business Disputes
  (Publication Pending)
  Honors
• Virginia Local Bar Leader of the Year 2023
• Virginia Law Foundation Fellow – Class of 2023
• Virginia Lawyers Weekly – Leaders in the Law – Class of 2020
• Rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell
• Martindale-Hubbell Platinum Client Champion
• Martindale-Hubbell Client Distinction Award
• Pro Bono Service Honor Roll
• Get to 30! Challenge Service Award Honoree
• Law Eagles of America
• Top-Rated Lawyers in Virginia
• Lawyers of Distinction
  Classes & Seminars
• The Ethics of Terminating the Attorney-Client Relationship, Virginia CLE,
  Richmond, VA, upcoming April 2024
• Bar Projects Showcase: Law Day, Bar Leaders Institute, March 2024
• Practical Advice – Basics of Representing Consumers in Business Disputes,
  Virginia CLE, Glen Allen, VA, December 2023
• Practical Advice – Basics of Representing Small Businesses, Virginia CLE,
  Charlottesville, VA, November 2023
• Perspectives on Bar Leadership, Bar Leaders Institute, Richmond, VA,
  March 2023
• Virginia CLE Business Law Seminar, upcoming September 2024
• Personal Injury Basics, upcoming Fall/Winter 2024
• Representing Comic Book and Graphic Novel Creators in The Current Media
  Landscape, TBD 2024

Judicial Roundtable: Lead Judge – The Honorable Michael Moore

The Honorable Michael Lee Moore
Michael Moore graduated from UVA in 1982, William and Mary Law in 1986. Elected Commonwealth’s Attorney for Russell County in 1992. Appointed to the Juvenile Court Bench for the 29th Judicial District in October of 1994. Appointed to Circuit Court Bench in 2022 for the 29th Circuit. Previous member of the Sentencing Commission and the Executive Committee for the Judicial Conference of Virginia.

Responding to Bar Complaints – Travis Graham

Travis J. Graham. Esq.
Travis is a graduate of Virginia Tech and the University of Tennessee College of Law. Following law school, he served as law clerk to Senior U.S. District Judge Glen M. Williams in Abingdon. He practiced in Tennessee for a number of years before returning to Roanoke, where he specializes in trust and estate litigation at the Gentry Locke law firm.
He is admitted in Virginia, Tennessee, and the Cherokee Nation.

DWI’s & DUID’s – Robert Galumbeck

Robert M. Galumbeck, Galumbeck Stiltner & Gillespie, Attorneys – Tazewell, VA
Robert M. Galumbeck is the senior partner in the law firm of Galumbeck Stiltner & Gillespie, Attorneys, with office in Tazewell, Virginia. Mr. Galumbeck is a 1973 graduate of the University of Virginia and obtained his J.D., in 1976, at the Marshall Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary. He has served as Commonwealth’s Attorney and as County in the areas of family law and criminal law. He has previously served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Virginia Trial Lawyers and as chair of the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Committee for the Tenth District (Section II). He has previously been recognized in the fields of family law and criminal law as one of Virginia’s “Legal Elite” by Virginia Business magazine and has been recognized as one of Virginia’s “Super Lawyers” by Virginia Super Lawyers magazine for more than a decade, including 2024. He is listed in Martindal Hubble’s Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers with an AV rating. Mr. Galumbeck has been a contributor and lecturer for continuing legal education courses for lawyers in Charlottesville, Roanoke, Richmond, Abingdon and Williamsburg in the fields of Criminal Defense (emphasis on Driving While Intoxicated), Family Law and Small Law Firm Practice.
Since 2017, Mr. Galumbeck has been a regular presenter on numerous subjects at the Annual criminal cases in Southwest Virginia. He, also, has a large number of published and unpublished opinions from the Virginia Supreme Court and the Virginia Court of Appeals.
He is a fellow of the American College of Trial lawyers. In 2012, Mr. Galumbeck was recognized by Virginia Lawyers’ Weekly as a Virginia Leader in the law. In 2022, Mr. Galumbeck was inducted into the Virginia Lawyers Hall of Fame. He has now been practicing law in Tazewell and Southwest Virginia for 48 years. He has been named as one of Virginia’s Top 100 Criminal Law Attorneys by America’s Top 100 (a non-paid award). He, also, has a large number of published and unpublished opinions from the Virginia appellate courts, including the following: Covenant Coal, Corp v. U.M.W.A., 244 Va. 417 (1994) [Business Law, failure to preserve objections], Dotson v. Dotson, 24 Va. App. 40 1997)[Spousal Support], Hoebelheinrich v. Hoebelheinrich, 43 Va. App. 543 (2004) [Divorce, business reversed], Dotson v. Commonwealth, 2000 Va. App. Lexis 493 (2000) [Criminal – felony child abuse reversed], Cantrell v. Commonwealth, 65 Va. App. 53 (2015) [Criminal, search and seizure, reversed in favor of accused], Commonwealth v. Keen, 2015 Va. App. Lexis 69 (2015)[Criminal, upholding speedy trial violation], Hicks v. Commonwealth, 2017 Va. App. Lexis 221 (2017) [Application of Melendez-Diaz to Person who received and opened blood vials], Lambert v. Commonwealth, 298 Va.510 (2020) [Accepting medical treatment may mean self administered drug].

Ethics (A year in Review ) Tom Scott

Tom Scott
Tom Scott is a 1974 graduate of Hampden-Sydney College with a B.A. in Government and Political Science. He graduated from the T. C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond with a J.D. in 1976. Mr. Scott is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and former Chairman of the
Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board.
Mr. Scott is a senior partner at the Street Law Firm in Grundy, Virginia where he has practiced for 42 years. Mr. Scott was selected in 2020 to the Virginia Lawyers Hall of Fame and selected in 2021 to Super Lawyers. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Scott joined the full-time faculty at the Appalachian School of Law in 2005.