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Aubrey has been a successful trial lawyer in a diverse array of federal and state court cases during his 28-year career. His skills as an advocate have been repeatedly recognized by his peers and the public. Aubrey was recently honored by his selection as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an honor limited to the top 1% of the trial bar. He has been listed repeatedly in The Best Lawyers in America. He is regularly identified as one of Virginia’s elite trial lawyers in the special legal edition of Virginia Business Magazine and the annual Virginia Super Lawyers publication. He has been inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocates and was appointed by the Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court to the faculty of the Virginia State Bar mandatory Course on Professionalism for all new lawyers. Aubrey was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1979, after receiving his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a Dillard Fellow. A 1975 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Aubrey was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1979, he joined the 60-lawyer firm of Browder & Russell in Richmond, ultimately serving as a partner and Head of the firm's Litigation Section. He joined Cantor Arkema as a Director in 1991. Aubrey has special expertise in cases involving business disputes, personal injury, civil rights, legal malpractice, unpaid overtime and class actions. As a litigator, Aubrey has vast trial experience. He has tried over 100 jury trials to verdict in the state and federal courts and has handled numerous arbitration proceedings. In December 2000, Aubrey represented a former Chief of Police in a federal court constitutional civil rights case in which the jury awarded his client $3,100,000, the largest individual civil rights verdict in Virginia history. In 1996, Aubrey represented the President of a telecommunications company in a claim for stock options, obtaining a $1,200,000 jury verdict after a two-week trial. In 2003, Aubrey obtained a $590,000 verdict representing an advertising business against a former employee for breach of his fiduciary duty and interference with the company's relations with its clients. One month later, Aubrey secured a jury verdict of $800,000 for his client, a female customer who was sexually assaulted by a Dairy Queen employee in the restaurant. More recently, he settled a case for $5,000,000 on behalf of two workers killed in an industrial explosion and resolved a federal court class action case against a Fortune 500 company involving unpaid overtime compensation for $1,500,000. A verdict he won in 2007 confirmed his clients’ entitlement to $1,904,000 for two years of compensation in a dispute with a former partner. Aubrey is the author and primary proponent of the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act (Va. Code Sec. 8.01-216) passed unanimously by the Virginia General Assembly in 2002. This Act, modeled after the Federal False Claims Act, allows Virginia citizens with knowledge of fraud involving public funds to bring a civil action on behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Aubrey has been invited to speak frequently on a variety of litigation topics to many legal and Business Services and Commercial Litigation Groups. He has spoken to lawyer organizations on topics of general civil litigation, commercial litigation, legal malpractice, false claims act, civil rights and employment law. Aubrey, who was born in Richmond, Virginia, stays active in the legal community as well as in the community at large. He served as 1999 State Chair of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Employment Law Section and as 1998 State Chair of the Constitutional Law Section. He served as Co-Chair of the influential civic and political organization known as Coalition for a Greater Richmond for six years. He has served as a board member for the American Friendship Library Project and the Richmond Ballet. He was chairman of a major statewide project to establish American law libraries in Poland and Estonia. Aubrey is a member of the Virginia Bar Association, the Richmond Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. | 