William R. Rakes Lawyer Profile on Martindale.com

Partner

Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, LLP
SunTrust Plaza, 10 Franklin Road, S.E., Suite 800, P.O. Box 40013
Roanoke, Virginia 24022-0013
(Independent City)

Telephone: 540-983-9374
Fax: 540-983-9400
http://www.gentrylocke.com/rakes
http://www.gentrylocke.com

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Experience & Credentials

Practice Areas	Commercial Litigation; Corporate; Appellate Practice; Banking; Intellectual Property; Antitrust; Professional Liability; Fiduciary Litigation; Bank Holding Company Law; Bank Mergers and Acquisitions; Banking Litigation; Complex Commercial Litigation; Business Litigation; Business Organization; Business Torts; Buying and Selling of Businesses

Education	University of Virginia, LL.B., 1963, University of Virginia, B.A., 1960

Admitted	1963, Virginia

Memberships	Roanoke Bar Association; Virginia State Bar; American Bar Association; The Virginia Bar Association; Ted Dalton American Inn of Court.

Biography	President, Roanoke Bar Association, 1977-1978. President, Virginia State Bar, 1992-1993. Member: Board of Governors, 1999-2001 and House of Delegates, 1993-2001; Council, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, 1995-2008; Chairperson, 2006-2007, American Bar Association. Chairman, American National Lawyers Insurance Reciprocal, 1997-1998. Co-Founder and President, Ted Dalton American Inn of Court, 2005-Present. Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference. Co-founder and Chairman of the Board, HomeTown Bank. Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers; American Academy of Appellate Attorneys.

ISLN	901740753

William R. Rakes