Email: gpomije@portslaw.com

Mr. Pomije attended the University of Virginia (B .A. 1971) and the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William & Mary (J.D. 1974). He joined Cooper, Spong & Davis in 1987 and is a shareholder.

Mr. Pomije practices in the areas of Civil Litigation, Health Law, and Elder Law, including Elder Law Litigation. His elder law practice includes guardianship/conservatorship issues, will and estate litigation, collections against estates, estate planning, and estate administration. His civil litigation practice includes a broad spectrum of chancery matters. In 2007 the Portsmouth Circuit Court appointed him one of two Commissioners of Accounts for the City of Portsmouth and as such he oversees the financial transactions of court-appointed fiduciaries.

Mr. Pomije is licensed to practice in Virginia. He is a former prosecutor (1974-1982), and served as the Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Portsmouth (1982) and as a Substitute Judge, Portsmouth General District Court (1990-1997). He was President of the Portsmouth Bar Association (1988-1989), President of the Portsmouth Rotary Club (1991-1992), and has served and continues to serve on the boards of many other civic organizations. He initiated and directs the Portsmouth Rotary Club’s Dictionary Project which has distributed thousands of dictionaries to third-graders in Portsmouth’s public and private schools. He presently is a member of the board of directors and treasurer of the Virginia Guardianship Association, a state advocacy organization for the incapacitated elderly and disabled, and chairs the community advisory committee for Jewish Family Service of Tidewater, Inc.'s Personal Affairs Management Program, a program serving the legal and social needs of the elderly and disabled in the Hampton Roads region. He is also a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and its litigation section, the Virginia Bar Association, the Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Association, and the Portsmouth Bar Association.

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