Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Susan Gibbons

Susan stated with Tucker Griffin Barnes in 2012 as a Real Estate Legal Assistant at our Lake Monticello Office.  She handles the front office and many real estate related issues.

Susan moved to the Charlottesville area in 2004 after growing up in South Jersey. She has worked in real estate since 2005 and has recently purchased her first home. In her spare time she enjoys gardening and reading.

Tucker Griffin Barnes
Charlottesville, VA
www.TGBLaw.com
  

Friday, May 10, 2013

Sarah Wayland

Sarah Wayland is originally from Oswego, NY, but from a young age, grew up in Orange County, Virginia. She is a 2002 graduate from Longwood University with a Bachelors of Science in Political Science and minors in history and social work. Shortly after graduation, she joined the Charlottesville real estate community learning the real estate settlement process and obtaining her title underwriters license.  

Sarah joined the Real Estate Department of Tucker Griffin Barnes in 2009 where she works directly with Bill Tucker and the real estate department in pre-closing.  Sarah enjoys the fast-paced and ever changing world of real estate, whether it is drafting documents, reviewing contracts or working closely with the real estate agents and clients in the beginning stages of their real estate transaction.

In her free time, Sarah enjoys Redskins football, spending  time with her family and friends, shopping, cooking and enjoying Charlottesville with her yellow Lab, Daisy.
 
Tucker Griffin Barnes
Charlottesville, VA
434-973-7474
 

Valerie Johnson

Valerie joined TGB in August 2010. She is originally from Atlanta, GA.  She has been in the real estate field since 2001 and has handled traditional and REO closings. She works in our short sale department. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with friends and family and cooking.

Tucker Griffin Barnes
Charlottesville, VA
434-973-7474
www.TGBLaw.com 

Mary Pat Fogarty

Mary Pat Fogarty is a paralegal to Attorney Laura Blair Butler in the Family Law/Domestic Relations area of practice.   She started working for the firm in December 2007.   Prior to moving to Virginia, she worked as a legal assistant for a Law Project which provided civil legal services to victims of domestic violence and disadvantaged families in Rensselaer County, New York.    

Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, Mary Pat is an avid Pittsburgh Steelers fan for life!  

Tucker Griffin Barnes
Charlottesville, Virginia
434-973-7474

 

Amy Sobeck

Amy, at Tucker Griffin Barnes since 2007, quickly turned into a Jack-Of-All-Trades by assisting with criminal trials, as well as front desk and office management. She has acted as paralegal for associates and partners in civil, criminal, personal injury, real estate, and business law.  Currently she manages the registered agent practice, and assists Mr. Tucker with real estate contracts and complicated deeds.  She loves examining old plats and property descriptions to help people solve their real estate issues.

Sound nerdy?  She is, but don’t tease her too much because she also practices martial arts, kung fu, including sparring (since 2006).  Being fluent in German and with a license to teach, her background is in foreign languages and education.  In desperate situations she can also communicate in Spanish and French.  She spends any extra time cooking whole foods and vegetables to feed to her adorable baby and husband. 

Tucker Griffin Barnes
Charlottesville, VA
434-973-7474
www.TGBLaw.com

Christina Burkard

Christina Burkard, our Office Manager, has been with the firm for over 17 years. She started as our receptionist in April 1996. In August 1997, she was promoted to assistant manager and then on to Office Manager is July 2003. Currently, she is in charge of running our day to day business operations (and keeping Mike Griffin, the firm’s Business Manager out of trouble).

Christina grew up locally and married a New Englander. She is an avid Red Sox and New England Patriots fan. She has volunteered in the community serving on her son’s baseball board as treasurer and most recently being “team mom” for her son’s lacrosse team. This past Christmas, Christina became known as the “Bike Lady” for her work in collecting 33 bikes for the Toy Lift on behalf of Tucker Griffin Barnes.

In her spare time, Christina enjoys watching her son’s lacrosse team, traveling with her husband (she’s been to Starbucks in 6 countries) and playing poker.

Tucker Griffin Barnes
Charlottesville, VA
434-973-7474



Fletcher Hultman

Fletcher joined Tucker Griffin Barnes in August of 2012 as an intern for the Personal Injury Practice, and was formally hired as a Personal Injury Legal Assistant in January of 2013.

He is an Eagle Scout from Boy Scout Troop 174 out of Greene, VA. He holds an Associates of Science Degree from Piedmont Virginia Community College and participated in the University of Virginia’s Summer Language Institute during the summer of 2012 focusing on the Russian Language. 

Outside of work and school, Fletcher enjoys spending time with his girlfriend, family, and friends and is an avid hobbyist auto mechanic. He enjoys also spending time in the Charlottesville community and learning about its history.

Tucker Griffin Barnes
Charlottesville, Virginia
434-973-7474
www.TGBLaw.com
 

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Christen Pugh

Christen joined Tucker Griffin Barnes in 2010 as a short sale coordinator. She is one of our two short sale paralegals that handle full negotiations and closings for short sale transactions.
Christen worked in real estate conducting traditional residential closings in the Charlottesville community since 2000 before joining our firm.  

A graduate of Albemarle High School and a native to the area, Christen is proud to call Charlottesville home. On her spare time she enjoys creative writing & spending time with family & friends.



Tucker Griffin Barnes
Charlottesville, VA
434-973-7474
www.TGBLaw.com

 

 

 

Heather Haag

Heather first joined Tucker Griffin Barnes in 2008 as a receptionist for the front desk, and has since advanced to join the Real Estate team in late 2011.

She assists multiple departments within the Real Estate group with a multitude of tasks, in addition to helping coordinate data for various attorneys, as well as our business manager, Mike Griffin.

In her spare time, Heather enjoys spending time with her family, reading, and running. Her favorite hobby is painting, printmaking, and pyrography of pop culture and the local landscapes Charlottesville has to offer.


Tucker Griffin Barnes
Charlottesville, VA
434-973-7474
www.TGBLaw.com

Jayne Carol Miller

Jayne joined TGB permanently in January 2013 as a Litigation Paralegal to Attorney Lynn Bradley, focusing on Worker’s Compensation and Collaborative Law.  Before accepting this position she worked with Mary Ann Barnes on an intern basis, assisting in Social Security Disability.  
 
Jayne worked with the Federal Government for twenty years in a variety of challenging positions, from the Pentagon to an Air Force installation in Yokota, Japan.  Eight of those years was spent with FEMA, assisting in disaster preparedness and managing an emergency communications site of over 50 employees. 
 
Wanting to be a stay-at-home mom, after the birth of her son, Jayne decided to manage a business from home.  She assisted in planning events and fundraisers for local businesses and schools, while continuing to work as an independent contractor with the the Social Security Administration.  It was in this position that Jayne became more interested in the legal field.  She went back to school to obtain her Paralegal certification through Germanna Community College in 2010.  She is currently taking classes in Conversational Spanish to enhance her skills in working with Spanish speaking clients.
 
Jayne lives in Orange, VA and enjoys photography, gardening and working as a volunteer for local civic organizations.  Her son, Patrick, is also working in the legal field as an assistant at a law firm in Orange, while continuing to go to Piedmont Virginia Community College.
 
 
Tucker Griffin Barnes
Charlottesville, VA
434-973-7474
 
 

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Kimberly Richardson

 
Kim Richardson has been working as a paralegal in the Real Estate Department of Tucker Griffin Barnes since February, 1993. She handles purchases, sales, refinances, reverse mortgages and construction loans.

Born and raised in Charlottesville, she attended UVA, graduating in 1992. The “Babies at Work” program here at TGB started with her first child, in 1995 and she has enjoyed the program with each of her 3 boys. 


Tucker Griffin Barnes
Charlottesville, VA
434-973-7474
www.TGBLaw.com
 
 
 
 

Anne Yost


Anne is the latest member of the TGB family.  Anne joined Tucker Griffin Barnes in 2013 and works closely with our criminal defense attorney, AndrĂ© Hakes, as her paralegal. She graduated from law school and earned her master’s degree at the University of the Philippines in Manila, Philippines.  She worked for LexisNexis as a legal editor before moving to Virginia, where she worked as a legal assistant in another prominent Charlottesville law firm. Anne is an experienced criminal paralegal and is familiar with the ins and outs of criminal procedure in the Central Virginia area; most importantly, Anne is committed to client support. 

When not working, Anne is a court-appointed special advocate for children with Piedmont CASA, where she has volunteered since 2010.  As a CASA advocate, she is assigned abuse and neglect cases and works closely with the Albemarle-Charlottesville Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.   

In her free time, Anne likes to travel, try new restaurants and spend time with her husband and two children.  Her daughter, Zarah, is an accounting major at George Mason University and her step-son Jack, is excited to begin his first year at Radford University.


Tucker Griffin Barnes
Charlottesville, VA
434-973-7474
www.TGBLaw.com
 
 
 

Friday, May 3, 2013

Donna Brandl


Donna Brandl has been working in the Social Security Disability area at TGB since March 2010.  First hired has a temp, she became a permanent employee of TGB in September 2010. 
The daughter of a career soldier, she has lived many places.  In 1984 she moved to Virginia from Wisconsin (yes, she is a Packer fan!) when her husband, Bill, accepted a job in Charlottesville.  Now, almost 30 years later, she still calls Albemarle County home. 
Donna is a graduate of Piedmont Virginia Community College and the University of Virginia.  She enjoys traveling with Bill, time spent with family and friends, trips to the beach, reading, and shopping.


Tucker Griffin Barnes
Our Charlottesville Office
434-973-7474
www.TGBLaw.com

Marlina Smith


Marlina joined Tucker Griffin Barnes in 2012 as Yvonne Griffin’s personal injury paralegal.  She spent 18 years working in the medical field prior to switching careers to personal injury law 10 years ago.  She enjoys working with Yvonne to help their clients reach a successful resolution to their case.

In her spare time, Marlina manages her son Cody Purvis’ country music career.  Cody is currently in Nashville and at just 19 yrs. old has opened for national artists including Trent Tomlinson, Josh Thompson, Steve Holy, Lee Greenwood, Corey Smith, Colt Ford, Darius Rucker, Peter Frampton and Trace Adkins.  www.codypurvis.com
 
Tucker Griffin Barnes
Charlottesville Office
434-973-7474
 

 

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Veronica Zawie

Veronica Zawie is originally from Birmingham, Alabama.  She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English from Dartmouth College and a Master of Arts in Secondary Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.  After teaching high school English for five years in her hometown, Veronica moved to Charlottesville with her husband, Nate.  Veronica has since seized the opportunity to transition to a new career.  She joined the Real Estate team at TGB in September and is currently assisting with the Short Sale department and the post-closing department. 

In her free time, Veronica enjoys reading, watching films, and exercising.  She teaches Les Mills BODYFLOW classes at Gold’s Gym.

Tucker Griffin Barnes
Charlottesville Office
434-973-7474
www.TGBLaw.com