Laurel
E.
Via
Laurel
E.
Via
- Family Law
Professional Associations
- Richmond Bar Association, Member
- Metropolitan Richmond Women’s Bar Association, Membership Committee Chair
- Chesterfield Bar Association, Special Event Coordinator
- Virginia State Bar
Published Works
- Laurel Via, Mobile Methadone Clinics: A Necessary Step in Fighting the Opioid Epidemic, 55 U. Rich. L. Rev. Online (2020).
- Laurel E. Via and Craig W. Sampson, Yourko: The Fight for Military Retirement Continues, Virginia Family Law Quarterly (Summer 2023)
Honors
- The Best Lawyers In America: Ones to Watch (2024 Edition)
- Virginia Lawyers Weekly Up and Coming Lawyer (2023)
Past Positions
- Attorney, Barnes & Diehl, P.C. (2022 – present)
- Law Clerk to The Honorable Jacqueline S. McClenney, Circuit Court of the City of Richmond (2021-2022)
- Extern, Virginia Commonwealth University, Office of General Counsel (2021-2021)
- Research Assistant on the topics of family law and trusts and estates to Professor Allison Tait, University of Richmond School of Law (2020-2021)
- Judicial Intern to The Honorable Henry E. Hudson, United States District Court, Eastern District of Virginia (2019)
- Judicial Intern to The Honorable Harvey E. Schlesinger, United States District Court, Middle District of Florida (2019)
- Probation and Intake Officer, Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice, Sixteenth District Court Services Unit (2017 – 2018)
Education
- University of Richmond, School of Law, Richmond, Virginia
- J.D. – 2021
- Honors: magna cum laude
- Honors: Order of the Coif
- Honors: CALI Award for Family Law Procedure
- The University of Virginia
- B.A. – 2017
- Honors: Raven Society