Experienced Attorneys Cody Murphey and John O’Malley Join Williams Mullen’s Richmond Office

Williams Mullen is pleased to announce that Cody T. Murphey has joined the firm’s Corporate Section as a partner and John P. O’Malley has joined the Litigation Section as a senior associate. Both attorneys are based in the firm’s Richmond office.

Murphey represents clients on matters concerning regulated and non-regulated utilities before both state and federal regulatory commissions. He brings deep industry experience serving utility companies, electric cooperatives, and data centers in regulatory matters concerning rate cases, tariff adjustments, affiliate transactions, certification of facilities, and pole attachments.

Within his telecommunications practice, Murphey provides counsel to competitive local exchange carriers, interexchange carriers, and eligible telecommunications carriers in obtaining certification from the Virginia State Corporation Commission.

Murphey earned his Juris Doctor degree from West Virginia University College of Law where he served as the executive research editor for the West Virginia Law Review and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampden-Sydney College.

O’Malley focuses his practice on commercial litigation matters, helping clients resolve disputes across many different industries. He has experience handling breaches of contract, commercial landlord/tenant claims, bet-the-company litigation, construction disputes, and constitutional law issues. O’Malley works with clients to prepare strategies to mitigate current or potential conflicts, such as advising clients as outside general counsel to ensure their compliance with current agreements, regulations, and laws.

O’Malley earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Richmond School of Law, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif and Order of Barristers, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Christopher Newport University.

Murphey and O’Malley bring a wealth of experience from their previous tenures at another large regional firm. Their transition follows colleague Matthew B. Kirsner, partner in Williams Mullen’s Litigation Section, who joined the firm in June after serving 14 years as the managing partner for the Richmond office of that same firm, where he also was the chair of their Commercial Litigation Practice Group, the Compensation Committee, and a member of the firm’s board of directors.