C&B Earns Top Spot for Food Drive Efforts -- Legal Food Frenzy Raises More Than 1.65 Million Pounds of Food Statewide
For the second year in a row, Christian & Barton has earned the statewide Legal Food Frenzy’s “James River Shad Award,” the first place award given to a medium-sized law firm for total food pounds collected. The firm arranged contributions of more than 68,400 pounds of food.
Christian & Barton’s contributions came from attorneys, staff and Goya Foods, a firm client that also made an incredibly generous donation towards the Legal Food Frenzy competition last year.
“Goya Foods, in an encore appearance, delivered a tractor-trailer filled with more than 30,000 pounds of their products directly to the Central Virginia Foodbank,” said Christopher M. Gill, a Christian & Barton lawyer who served as the firm’s Legal Food Frenzy coordinator and as the project’s statewide co-chair for the Virginia Bar Association.
“It is an honor to win this award for the second year in a row and we are delighted that Goya Foods was part of the excitement. However the biggest winners are the children, elderly and families who need assistance from their local food banks,” said J. Edward Betts, the firm’s managing partner.
The Legal Food Frenzy, a joint project of the Virginia Bar Association and the Office of the Attorney General, is a competition among the Commonwealth’s legal community to raise donations and food for the seven regional food banks and the Federation of Virginia Food Banks. The Attorney General has established awards for firms that raise the most food in relation to their size. This year’s drive raised more than 1.65 million pounds of food, which exceeded the 2008 total of 1.3 million pounds of food.
Pictured above, left to right: Rafael Toro, director of public relations, Goya Foods; Juan Lopez, division manager, Goya Foods; Fay Lohr, president/CEO, FeedMore; Brenda Miller, food drive coordinator, Central Virginia Foodbank; Christopher M. Gill, Christian & Barton; and Luis Ramos, general manager, Goya Foods of Virginia.
To read the Office of the Attorney General’s press release, click here.