Janus & Stone

Criminal justice attorney, Family law attorney in Richmond, VA

Address

5608 Grove Ave, Richmond, VA, 23226

Phone

(804) 265-4441

Website

jslawpc.com

A name carries weight before a single case is argued. Janus & Stone, P.C. holds the name of Murray J. Janus alongside that of founding attorney Taylor B. Stone — a firm christened in 2001 as tribute to a mentor, which is its own quiet statement about what the practice values. Two decades of criminal and civil trial work sit behind the Grove Avenue office in Richmond, the kind of tenure that turns a young associate into "widely-recognized" among peers, per Super Lawyers profiles that don't hand out that language lightly. Criminal defense is unforgiving work — the margin between a case well-argued and a life altered is measured in cross-examinations and plea negotiations, not marketing copy. Stone's reputation as a negotiator matters as much as the reputation as a trial lawyer; most cases never see a jury, and the ones that resolve well often resolve quietly, in a room with a prosecutor, long before a verdict is possible. That is the unglamorous, essential half of criminal defense, and it is where a firm like Janus & Stone earns its name twice over.

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