C&B Again Earns 1st Place Award for Food Drive Efforts
For the third time in as many years, Christian & Barton has earned the first place award given to a medium-sized law firm for total pounds of food collected in the statewide Legal Food Frenzy competition. The firm arranged contributions of approximately 65,000 pounds of food and converted monetary donations.
Christian & Barton’s contributions came from attorneys, staff and an incredibly generous donation by Goya Foods, a firm client.
"Goya Foods delivered a tractor-trailer filled with almost 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. Goya Foods has partnered with C&B for the competition since 2008.
“We put forth an enthusiastic, first-place effort with our friends at Goya Foods,” said J. Edward Betts, the firm’s managing partner. “While our focus was to support local food banks that keep children, the elderly and families nourished in lean times, it is gratifying that those efforts lead to the ‘James River Shad Award.’”
The Legal Food Frenzy, a joint project created by the Virginia Bar Association and the Office of the Attorney General in 2007, 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 established awards for firms that raise the most food in relation to their size. This year’s drive raised more than 1.7 million pounds of food, which exceeded the 2009 record of 1.65 million pounds.
Click here to read more about the fourth annual Legal Food Frenzy results. (May 2010)