Allen Law Firm Names New President Douglas A. Barry
Richmond Times Dispatch
By Gregory J. Gilligan
Reprinted with permission.
The Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen law firm tapped a nonfamily member fo the first time as its president.
Douglas A. Barry, who joined the Richmond law firm 11 years ago this month, was elected to the one-year post this week. Eight of the firm's 12 partners are members of the Allen family. The partners elected Barry.
"This is a great honor," Barry said. "This is a family business who opened its doors to a nonfamily member. Not many family businesses give opportunities like that."
The firm, which specializes in personal-injury cases, has 23 lawyers working in six offices - Richmond, Chesterfield, Mechanicsville, Petersburg, Fredericksburg and Garrisonville.
Barry, 49, served as deputy commonwealth's attorney in Hanover County from 1986 to 1993. He also is a former FBI agent. Barry graduated from the University of Virginia in 1979 and from the University of Richmond's T.C. Williams School of Law in 1982.
Barry replaces Elizabeth M. Allen, granddaughter of the firm's founder, George E. Allen, who opened the law office in Lunenburg County in 1910. He moved his office to Richmond in 1931.
His three sons later joined him - thus the reason for the four "Allen" names as the firm's moniker.
Copyright Richmond Times-Dispatch. Used with permission.
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