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Managing Partner - Mia Yugo

Mia is a creative lawyer and one of the best employment attorneys in Roanoke, Virginia.

Award Winning Playwright

Award Winning Playwright

Award Winning Playwright

While growing up in Toronto, Mia authored and directed several original plays and comedies produced for various theatre festivals across Toronto staged in venues including the historic Hart House Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, the Helen Phelan Gardiner Playhouse, and the Grand Theatre in Kingston. Mia won numerous festival awards for her work

While growing up in Toronto, Mia authored and directed several original plays and comedies produced for various theatre festivals across Toronto staged in venues including the historic Hart House Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, the Helen Phelan Gardiner Playhouse, and the Grand Theatre in Kingston. Mia won numerous festival awards for her work, and later majored in theatre. Mia enjoys litigation and brings her theatre background to the courtroom.

Mia is one of the best lawyers in Roanoke, VA and one of the youngest female managing partners.

Managing Partner

Award Winning Playwright

Award Winning Playwright

Mia is a skilled attorney, our Managing Partner, and head of our Appellate and Whistleblower & Retaliation divisions.  Mia authors two legal blogs:

Fraudbusters: Show Me The Money!

and

Eminent Domain in Virginia.

Mia has won multiple attorney awards and been recognized as one of the best lawyers in Roanoke, VA

Champion Negotiator

Award Winning Playwright

Champion Negotiator

As a negotiations and moot court competitor, Mia won national accolades for negotiations and appellate advocacy. She was Champion of the National Basketball Negotiations Competition hosted by Fordham Sports in New York, First Runner-Up at the National Tax Moot Court Competition hosted by the Florida Bar Association, and represented the Un

As a negotiations and moot court competitor, Mia won national accolades for negotiations and appellate advocacy. She was Champion of the National Basketball Negotiations Competition hosted by Fordham Sports in New York, First Runner-Up at the National Tax Moot Court Competition hosted by the Florida Bar Association, and represented the United States at the ABA’s World Negotiation Championships in Lucerne, Switzerland. 

Biography

Fierce Litigator

Mia is head of the Whistleblower Protection & Retaliation Division and the Appellate Division. Mia focuses primarily on complex civil litigation and whistleblower claims with a special interest in fraud, labor & employment law, retaliation, wrongful termination, and “protected activity.” Mia also has litigated complex administrative and constitutional law issues at the federal district and appellate levels, including issues related to the Natural Gas Act, jurisdiction, separation-of-powers, the non-delegation doctrine, and the major questions doctrine. Mia has briefed and argued cases before state and federal courts, including the D.C. Circuit and 4th Circuit and drafted petitions for writ of certiorari to the U. S. Supreme Court. 

Impressive Results

Mia has a strong record of case results and is particularly effective with dispositive motions. Mia focuses primarily on plaintiff’s labor and employment law, fraud, discrimination, retaliation, whistleblower protection, and appeals. Mia also represents and advises educational institutions and media entities and is available to review civil defense matters in select cases. 


Check out Mia's legal blogs:


Fraudbusters: Show Me The Money!

Eminent Domain in Virginia


Review Mia's case results.

PRACTICE AREAS:

 

Labor & Employment Law

  • Retaliation & “Protected Activity”  
  • Fraud & Whistleblower Claims
  • Discrimination & Wrongful Termination – gender, race, pregnancy, age, etc.
  • False Claims Act (FCA) – qui tam suits
  • Covid-19 PPP Loan Fraud 
  • Healthcare Fraud  
  • Regulatory Compliance  

Administrative & Constitutional Law

  • Eminent Domain
  • Separation of Powers  
  • Non-delegation doctrine
  • Major Questions doctrine
  • Statutory construction
  • Agency disputes  

Complex Civil Litigation

  • Breach of Contract
  • Breach of Fiduciary Duties
  • Defamation Defense
  • Subpoena Defense  
  • Defense Base Act
  • False Claims Act

Admissions

  • Virginia State Bar
  • New York State Bar
  • D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals
  • Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
  • Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia
  • Southern District of New York  

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Yugo Collins, PLLC - Roanoke Employment Lawyers

Serving Roanoke, Lynchburg, and the New River Valley

(540) 861-1529

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