A lot has changed since December 2000 when Virginia Business began publishing the Legal Elite, an annual list of top lawyers picked by their peers.
The 9/11 terrorists’ attacks in 2001 led to U.S. involvement in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that continue to this day.
Social media have become a part of everyday life since the launch of Facebook in 2004 and Twitter in 2006.
Barack Obama was elected the nation’s first African-American president in 2008 and re-elected in 2012.
Donald Trump, a billionaire businessman and reality television star, won the presidency last year in his first campaign for elective office.
