Senior Research Attorney Anne B. Hemenway
B.A., Harvard University, 1979, Cum Laude. J.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 1985. Member, New Mexico Bar. Before attending law school, Anne worked as a legislative assistant for former Senator Birch Bayh and former Senator Joe Tydings in Washington, D.C. Upon graduating from law school, Anne practiced commercial law for five years at the law firm of Montgomery & Andrews in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has been with NLRG since 1990 and specializes in Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights, Commercial Contracts, Church Law, and other issues involving commercial litigation and consumer protection issues, including issues arising under the U.C.C.. Read Full Bio
Senior Research Attorney Alistair D. Edwards
B.A., University of Virginia, 1994. J.D., University of Florida Law School, 1998. Member, Maryland and D.C. Bars. Admitted, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to joining NLRG, Alistair clerked for a Maryland circuit court judge and worked in the litigation department of a Washington, D.C.-based law firm. Alistair concentrates on Property, Contracts, and Commercial Law. He has in-depth experience in mortgages, commercial and residential transactions, landlord and tenant law, adverse possession, easement law, real estate contracts, real estate financing, construction law, and oil and gas law. Read Full Bio
Senior Research Attorney Lee P. Dunham
Lee is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and a member of the Colorado Bar and Virginia Bar. After graduating from law school, she served as a judicial clerk for The Hon. Stephen C. Mahan and The Hon. A. Bonwill Shockley of the Virginia Beach Circuit Court. Following her clerkship, Lee worked for two years as a Legal Aid trial attorney at Blue Ridge Legal Services in the Shenandoah Valley, where her practice consisted primarily of domestic relations, landlord/tenant, and consumer cases. Lee practiced bankruptcy and commercial law in Charlottesville, Virginia for four years, first in a solo practice and later with the firm of Royer, Caramanis & McDonough, LLP. During that time, Lee was a member of the Thomas Jefferson Inn of Court, and presented a well-received CLE on "Bankruptcy Law for Non-Bankruptcy Lawyers" to the Inn. Read Full Bio
Senior Research Attorney Charlene J. Hicks
B.A., Brigham Young University, 1989. J.D., Marshall Wythe School of Law, College of William and Mary, 1994, where Charlene was a member of the Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Member, Virginia Bar. Charlene joined NLRG in 1994. She focuses on Contracts, Commercial Law, Corporations, Creditors' Rights, and Civil Procedure. Areas of expertise include arbitration, construction law, employment contracts, government contracts, agency, U.C.C. matters, arbitration issues, corporate formation, franchises, unfair trade practices, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and motion and appellate practice. Read Full Bio
