Mr. Joynes is a former President of the Firm and currently serves as the Firm’s Chief Growth Officer. In this latter capacity, he is principally responsible for the Firm’s growth strategies, including the opening of offices in new markets, the identification of potential merger partners, and the recruitment of senior lateral legal talent.
During his first 20 years of practice, Mr. Joynes had leading roles in a number of celebrated matters, including the mass tort bankruptcies of A.H. Robins Company and Dow Corning Corporation, and he has addressed the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges on topics uniquely arising in such cases. He was selected by the Virginia Attorney General and the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia to serve as the Sole Trustee of the VRS Restitution Trust where he was tasked with identifying and compensating the victims of securities fraud. Rated “av” in Martindale-Hubbell, Mr. Joynes has been selected as among the top lawyers not only in his local Bar, but also in Virginia’s “Legal Elite.”
Beyond the practice of law, Mr. Joynes has been recognized for both his acumen as a businessman as well as his contributions to the community. In addition to serving for nearly 10 years as President of the Firm, he has served as a director or business advisor of a number of companies. Mr. Joynes was a moving force in assembling and preparing for redevelopment the first large scale brownfield project in Richmond, Rocketts Landing, now a mixed-use urban village sitting on the banks of the James River just east of downtown Richmond. In 2001, Mr. Joynes was elected to the Greater Richmond Business Hall of Fame, the only practicing lawyer ever so recognized.
Among the leaders of the initiative to build a new Children’s Museum of Richmond, Mr. Joynes served as President of the Museum’s Board when the new museum opened in 2000. During the same period, he founded and served as Chairman of the Project Exile Citizens Support Foundation, a nationally recognized effort to curb gun-related homicides in Richmond. He was also a founding Trustee and, later, Chair of the Board of the Foundation for the Preservation of Virginia’s Executive Mansion, later merged into the Virginia Capitol Foundation on whose board he currently sits. At the behest of the City of Richmond and the surrounding localities, Mr. Joynes served as Lead Project Manager for “Richmond Region 2007” which was organized to commemorate and celebrate the 400th anniversary of the first English landing in Virginia. Mr. Joynes is the recipient of the Community Vision Award given by Leadership Metro Richmond.