CAMPBELL FLANNERY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- of Counsel
- Counsel With
- Founder and CEO of Andy Richardson Group
Andy Richardson serves a senior status Of Counsel with Campbell Flannery. Licensed in West Virginia as both an attorney and an insurance agent, Andy brings over 40 years of experience to our clients as a former in-house lawyer and business executive in the insurance claims administration field. His extensive experience in business transactions and insurance positions Campbell Flannery to serve our clients in a variety of unique ways, whether in risk management and insurance contract analysis; assessment of needs for development of in-house documents for employer; or other legal services.
Richardson is also the Founder and CEO of Andy Richardson Group, serving clients with a broad variety of needs. Andy is also a former public servant at the state, county, and municipal levels of government. This wealth of experience positions Andy as a problem solver, quick study, and effective communicator in times of crisis.
Daniel M. Casto, Esq. is a Principal with Campbell Flannery, P.C. Dan's practice areas include outside general counsel, corporate law, mergers & acquisitions, business ownership and management succession planning, tax, business divorce/separation, venture capital, finance, and employment. In addition to being an attorney, Dan is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) - Inactive in West Virginia.
Jim manages a complex business litigation practice, including commercial construction, employment, intellectual property, medical malpractice, personal injury, insurance, land use and bankruptcy litigation. The litigation practice includes appellate proceedings in State and Federal Courts. He also maintains a varied business and transaction practice for a variety of local and regional clients.
Jim is a graduate of West Virginia University and the West Virginia University College of Law. The firm's clients from West Virginia will remember him as the 1979 Mountaineer. The energy of fulfilling that role continues with his passion for his clients and their causes.
Jim currently resides just north of Leesburg in Lucketts Virginia, where he can frequently be found moving furniture for his wife's business, The Cottage at Lucketts.
Jason's professional background includes broad litigation experience as a criminal prosecutor for the Commonwealth of Virginia being lead counsel in over 25 jury trials and hundreds of bench trials. After practicing with Wolfe, Williams, and Reynolds Attorneys PLLC in Norton, Virginia, he served as a Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney for Wise County and the City of Norton from 2012 to 2016, when he relocated to Northern Virginia to join the Loudoun Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney from 2016 to the end of 2020.
Jason's extensive experience includes DUI and traffic enforcement, narcotics distribution, violent crime, and criminal street gang prosecutions. Jason will be available to protect your interests in traffic and criminal courts, as well as civil matters throughout the metropolitan area.
Jason's interests include politics and sports. Our friends in southwest Virginia remember him as the color commentator for the UVA-Wise Highland Cavaliers football team. He lives with his wife and son in Herndon.
John P. Flannery John is listed in "Who's Who in America", and he is a regular guest commentator on tv and radio on law and politics including Fox News, the O'Reilly Factor, and Chris Matthews Hardball.
John is a former federal prosecutor from New York who handled widely publicized federal criminal investigations and prosecutions that ran the gamut from securities fraud to a mob prison break, the bribery of Congressman Dan Flood by a rabbi, the federally funded summer feeding scandal in the South Bronx, and heroin-trafficking by major organized crime figures including "Matty" Madonna.
In private practice at the mid-town Manhattan law firm of Poletti Friedin Prashker Feldman & Gartner (founded by FDR Jr.), John represented all the airlines in the negotiation of the settlement in the Air Traffic Controllers Strike in 1981.
While John maintained a general private practice in the mid-80's, he continued to handle complex civil matters as well, representing John Maguire, the founder of a wholly owned hi-tech subsidiary, Software AG, NA, as well as Al Neuharth, the founder of USA Today. John also had a busy criminal docket that included complex multi-defendant, multi-jurisdictional securities fraud prosecutions, the targets of alleged defense industries fraud, and those targeted in political corruption investigations.
John served twice on Capitol Hill. On the Senate side as Special Counsel to the U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee (appointed by Chairman Strom Thurmond to investigate Quadaffi's efforts to subvert American foreign policy), and then as Special Counsel to the U.S. Senate Labor Committee (appointed by Chairman Orrin Hatch to investigate the confirmation hearings of former Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan). On the House side, he served again as Special Counsel, investigating the mob's influence in the Laborers International Union, also their influence on the Teamsters International Union, and he made a nationwide assessment of the "American Worker". His most challenging assignment on the Hill, however, was his work on the historic Impeachment proceedings of President William Jefferson Clinton (for the democratic minority).
John was Chief of Staff for Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, representing Silicon Valley; he was responsible for forging bi-partisan legislative initiatives, serving as liaison with the minority leader, and lending his expertise in hi-tech policy making and legislation.
After Congress, John returned to practice at Campbell Flannery, PC (camflanlaw.com) as "Of Counsel". John's litigation practice was both civil and criminal, trial and appellate, federal and state.
John's criminal defense and appellate practice, at the federal and state level, focused on white collar criminal defense including several significant chronic pain cases, most particularly, the Florida State appeal of Richard Paey, a chronic pain patient, unjustly sentenced to 25 years for receiving pain medication, featured on 60 Minutes in September 2007. As noted by 60 Minutes, Mr. Paev recieved a full pardon. In Knuckles vs State of Ohio, John represented a physician in a pain case appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court. John associated in these efforts with the Pain Relief Network, headed by its founder and President, Siobhan Reynolds; it is because of Richard and other pain cases, that John wrote his book, "Pain in America - and how our Government makes it worse!"
John's civil practice includes complex fraud and contract litigation involving labor (workers), land use, employment, contract, corporate entities (whether it's formation, or dissolution), business hi-tech, IP, Sarbanes Oxley, and a general civil practice, as well as government relations.
Mr. Flannery holds undergraduate degrees in Physics (BS, Fordham) and Industrial Engineering (BS, Columbia), a law degree (J.D., Columbia), and a Masters Degree (Masters in Information Science, GW Graduate Business School).
Mr. Flannery is married to Holly Lynne Flannery, formerly Holly Lynne Smith, his daughter is Diana (after the huntress of legend), and Holly's daughter is Alexandra.
Matthew is an experienced litigator who has devoted his practice to complex litigation in state and federal courts. Matthew's cases have focused on business, commercial, construction, and fiduciary disputes. These cases have involved derivative lawsuits brought by members and stockholders of closely held businesses, judicial dissolutions and receiverships, partnerships, actions to remove trustees and executors, challenges to agents under powers of attorney, disputes involving forgery and fraud, and the representation of debtors and creditors in bankruptcy proceedings.
Matthew also regularly advises clients on business formations, corporate governance and best practices, contracts, non-competition, non-solicitation, and non-disclosure agreements, contract drafting, estate planning, estate and trust administrations, and the guardianship and conservatorship of incapacitated persons. He is admitted to the Bars of New York, Virginia, and West Virginia. He is also admitted to practice in the U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, and the Northern District of West Virginia.
For the years 2020 and 2021, the national publication Super Lawyers selected Matthew to its Virginia "Rising Stars" list in the area of Business Litigation.
Before joining Campbell Flannery, Matthew practiced law at two leading law firms in Northern Virginia, and at the international law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York. In New York, Matthew practiced corporate law and assisted banks, private equity funds, and large corporations and other business enterprises with matters involving financial regulations, securities laws, and mergers and acquisitions. Matthew began his career as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Irene M. Keeley, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia where he managed a large and fast-moving docket of civil and criminal cases.
Suzy is a Senior Litigation Paralegal with over 30 years of law firm experience. She arrived at the firm in 2005 and has been essential to its operations ever since. Suzy has developed a mastery of court rules and procedures in state and federal courts throughout Virginia, West Virginia, the District of Columbia and beyond. She assists with all phases of litigation, including trials and trial preparation. Her real estate background enables her to conclude numerous real estate closings and other business transactions. If she is not in the office you can find her coaching a row or strength class or whipping up something in her kitchen.