Boleman Law Firm, P.C.

Laura, a shareholder in the firm, grew up in Roanoke, Virginia. She graduated from Meredith College in 1988 with a BA degree in History. After graduation she worked with the Dalkon Shield Claimants’ Trust for six years. At the Trust, she worked in all areas eventually representing the Trust in Alternative Dispute Resolution administrative hearings, both nationally and internationally.

Laura graduated from South Texas College of Law in Houston Texas in 1998 and joined the Boleman Law Firm that same year. She became a partner in 2004. Laura has served on the Bankruptcy Bar Liaison Committee and the board of Legal Aid Society of Virginia. Currently, she serves on the board of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation.

She is a member of Metro Richmond Women’s Bar Association, serving on the Legislative Committee, the Richmond Bankruptcy Bar Association, the Richmond Bar Association and the Virginia State Bar.

Julia Adair is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and the University of Richmond School of Law.

Her memberships have included the Virginia State Bar, National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees, American Bar Association, the Metropolitan Richmond Women’s Bar Association, and the Richmond Bar Association.  She has served as a speaker to community organizations and has provided CARE educational seminars to high school students. Julia was a founding board member of the Byrd Theatre Foundation.

A frequent speaker at local, regional and national organizations, John has addressed the Virginia Propane & Gas Association; Virginia Governors Conference on Housing; National Association of Chapter Thirteen Trustees; Virginia Trial Lawyer's Association; Tidewater Bankruptcy Bar Association as well as a number of civic and business organizations. 

John has served as a member of the Virginia State Bar, National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees, American Bankruptcy Institute, American Bar Association, Richmond Bankruptcy Bar Association and the Tidewater Bankruptcy Bar Association where he is currently serving on the Board.  

He is licensed to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia; U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Virginia; U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia and the Supreme Court of Virginia. 

Betty Cabell Brogan grew up in Roanoke, Virginia and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from The College of William & Mary in May 2005. She graduated in May 2008 from the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond, where she served on the editorial staff of the Journal of Law & Public Interest.

James “Jim” Flaherty grew up in San Diego and the Tidewater area. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute with a B.A. in Business and Economics. Following graduation he accepted a commission in the U.S. Navy where he served for five years. While homeported in Norfolk, Jim served in a variety of Division Officer assignments aboard USS Stout, (DDG 55). Later he transferred to the USS Peterson (DD 969) as the Training Department Head. Jim acted as command legal officer in both ships, providing basic legal counsel to both the Captains and crew.

Jim graduated from T.C. Williams in May of 2004 earning magna cum laude honors. While in school he clerked in the legal department for Monumental Life Insurance Company.

Jim joined the Boleman Law Firm in August of 2004. He currently heads the litigation department of the Firm’s Richmond office. He has been a panel speaker on bankruptcy law at the 2005 Governor’s Housing Conference as well as the 2005 Annual Statewide Legal Aid Conference. He is admitted to the State Bar of Virginia, and is authorized to practice before all Virginia State Courts, the Bankruptcy Courts in the Eastern District of Virginia as well as the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Jim is a member of the American Bar Association, the Virginia Bar Association and the Richmond Bankruptcy Bar. Jim resides in Glen Allen with his wife, Jacqueline.

Her professional memberships and activities include the Virginia State Bar, the Metropolitan Richmond Women's Bar Association and the Richmond Bar Association where she currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Bankruptcy Section. She has previously served on the Board of the Richmond Metropolitan Habitat for Humanity.

Mark is a shareholder and Chief Counsel of the Boleman Law Firm and practices in the firm’s Richmond, Newport News, and Virginia Beach offices. Mark has been selected four times by his fellow Virginia attorneys as a member of Virginia’s “Legal Elite” in the bankruptcy practice category in state-wide polls conducted by Virginia Business magazine. He is a native of Virginia, he earned his B.S. degree from Eastern Mennonite College in Harrisonburg, VA, and his J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, PA.

 Mark is a member of the Virginia State Bar, he is a frequent author and lecturer on bankruptcy law, and he is the Editor for the Bankruptcy Law News, a statewide bankruptcy periodical published by the Virginia State Bar’s Bankruptcy Section. Mark has served as a panelist at NACTT annual conferences in 2006, 2009, and 2010. Mark is proud to be an alumni of the NACTT’s Advanced Consumer Bankruptcy Practice Institute and a member of the NACTT Academy for Consumer Bankruptcy Education. He is frequently a featured speaker and author on bankruptcy matters for Virginia CLE programs, he is a co-author of “Bankruptcy Practice in Virginia”, a Virginia CLE Publication, and he has served on both the Local Rules Committee of the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and on the Richmond Bankruptcy Court’s Liaison Committee.

Trenya, a native of North Carolina, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a dual Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Afro-American Studies. Upon graduation in 2001, she worked at UNC-CH as a legal assistant with Carolina Student Legal Services. She received her Juris Doctorate from Washington and Lee University School of Law in May 2005.

 Sarah joined Boleman Law Firm in December of 2009. She currently resides in Virginia Beach, and she is a member of the Tidewater Bankruptcy Bar Association, the Virginia Bar Association, the VBA Young Lawyers Division, and the Hampton Roads Chapter of the Virginia Women Attorneys Association.

Kathryn grew up in Montgomery County, Maryland.  She received a B.A. in history from the College of Charleston in 2003.  She graduated from the University of Richmond School of Law in 2008.  During her studies at Richmond, she was research assistant for Professor Hamiliton Bryson.

Barry received his B.A. degree from Bowdoin College and graduated cum laude from Washington & Lee University School of Law. At Washington and Lee, he served during his third year as a Burks Scholar teaching assistant. Prior to entering private practice, he served as law clerk to the Honorable David H. Adams, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia

He has been a partner at Weinberg & Stein in Norfolk and specialized in bankruptcy and insolvency matters and litigation involving financial disputes. Barry has also served on the Panel of Chapter 7 Trustees for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Division.

Barry was President of the Tidewater Bankruptcy Bar Association for the 2008-2009 term. He has also served as Treasurer and Seminar Chairman as well as a member of the Board of Directors of that organization. Mr. Spear has spoken at numerous seminars on bankruptcy and collection issues.

He is admitted to practice in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.