Jurach, Tacey & Quitiquit, PLC

Focus and practice areas

The firm works from Richmond, Virginia, and criminal defense accounts for a substantial share of its listed work. Its pages describe matters across a broad criminal range: violent offenses, domestic violence, theft, drug charges, firearms cases, white collar offenses and sex crimes. The site also lists expungements, which deal with clearing a past charge from a person's record. Taken together, that list covers much of what a Virginia criminal docket holds in a given week.

The breadth here tells a client something useful about the firm. A domestic violence case and a firearms case follow different rules of evidence and carry different penalties, so a firm that takes both handles a wide span of criminal procedure. White collar matters add financial records and longer investigations to that mix. The firm presents itself as ready for the serious end of the criminal calendar as well as the routine end.

Traffic and driving cases

Driving and traffic cases run close to the criminal work. The firm handles DUI, reckless driving and ordinary traffic tickets. In Virginia, reckless driving is a criminal charge that carries the weight of a misdemeanor, so it sits alongside the firm's other defense work. A DUI charge brings its own evidence questions and license consequences, which makes early legal advice worthwhile.

The civil practice areas

Away from the criminal courts, the firm lists several civil practice areas. Personal injury covers car, motorcycle and truck accidents. Estate planning covers wills and trusts, and the firm also handles family law, civil litigation and real estate, including landlord-tenant matters and property litigation. In my opinion, that spread reads as a general community firm, one equipped for the everyday legal needs of a Richmond area household.

Where the founders started

Adam Jurach and Tony Quitiquit began the firm in 2013 under the name Jurach & Quitiquit. Both had worked as Assistant Commonwealth Attorneys before they left the prosecutor's office to start their own firm. The firm states that its attorneys previously worked as Assistant Commonwealth Attorneys, so that prosecutorial thread runs through the firm as a whole. For a defense firm, that shared history is a defining feature.

The background shapes the kind of work the firm now emphasizes. A defense lawyer who once brought charges has watched how the state gathers evidence, tests it and presents it to a judge or jury. That vantage point can inform plea discussions, pretrial motions and trial strategy from the other side of the courtroom. The firm draws on it across its criminal and traffic caseload.

Brian Tacey joined in 2016 and added criminal and personal injury experience to the firm. He had also worked as an Assistant Commonwealth Attorney before entering private practice. The firm's current name, Jurach, Tacey & Quitiquit, PLC, carries his name alongside the two founders.

The attorneys the site names

Adam M. Jurach earned his J.D. from the University of Richmond in 2004 and joined the Virginia bar in 2005. He worked as an Assistant Commonwealth Attorney in Hanover County, then focused his defense work on criminal charges and traffic tickets. His attorney page keeps that focus narrow, criminal law and traffic violations, which gives a client a clear read on his day-to-day docket. Of the attorneys the site profiles, his page carries the most detail about background and focus.

G. Brian Tacey works across criminal and personal injury matters and shares the prosecutor background of the founders. Tony Quitiquit, one of the two founders, came from the Commonwealth Attorney's office as well, and his name has been on the door since 2013. Between them, the founders and Brian Tacey cover both the criminal defense core and the personal injury side of the caseload.

The site also identifies Ryan H. Ash and Sydney Scarce Bonnell as attorneys with the firm. Both appear on the firm's roster alongside the founders and Brian Tacey. The site names five attorneys in total: the three whose names form the firm's title, plus Ryan H. Ash and Sydney Scarce Bonnell. A prospective client can see the full set of lawyers the firm puts forward before making contact.

How criminal and traffic cases move

The firm's attorneys appear regularly in Henrico, Hanover, Chesterfield and Richmond, along with surrounding Virginia counties. That coverage matches the criminal and traffic focus, since each charge is heard in the court for the place where it was filed. A driver cited in Chesterfield answers that charge in Chesterfield, and the same holds across the region the firm covers. Regular appearances in the same courthouses build the kind of local knowledge that shapes scheduling and argument.

Virginia sorts these cases by severity. A misdemeanor or traffic charge usually starts in general district court, where a judge hears it without a jury. A felony begins with a preliminary hearing and can move up to circuit court, where a jury may decide the outcome. As a reviewer, I read the firm's countywide presence as a sign its lawyers work these courts often enough to know how each one runs.

A criminal case in Virginia follows recognizable stages. It opens with an arrest or summons and an arraignment, where the charge is read and counsel is confirmed. Bond, discovery and any plea talks come next, and a case that remains contested proceeds to trial. A defense firm that appears often in a given court knows the local timing of each of these steps.

Expungements and record clearing

The firm lists expungement work among its criminal services. An expungement asks a court to remove a charge from a person's record, and in Virginia it applies to specific situations such as a dismissed or acquitted charge. The petition goes to the circuit court in the county where the charge was handled. A person who clears an old record can find that job and housing applications go more smoothly afterward.

The injury and civil work

The personal injury pages cover crashes involving cars, motorcycles and trucks. A claim of this kind usually opens with an insurance claim and can turn into a lawsuit when the parties disagree on the value of the injury. Virginia applies a strict contributory negligence rule, which can bar recovery when the injured person shares any fault. That rule puts a premium on how fault gets documented from the first day.

Timing carries weight in these civil cases too. Virginia sets a two-year window for filing most personal injury lawsuits, measured from the date of the injury. Evidence such as photographs, medical records and witness accounts is easier to gather soon after a crash. A client who reaches a lawyer early gives the firm more room to build the claim.

A firm that also handles civil litigation can carry an injury claim from the demand letter into court when settlement talks stall. The same litigation capacity supports the firm's real estate work, which includes landlord-tenant disputes and property litigation. Landlord-tenant cases in Virginia run under the state's residential tenancy statutes and are heard in general district court. Family law rounds out the civil side of the firm's work.

Wills, trusts and estates

On the planning side, the firm prepares wills and trusts. A will sets out how a person's property passes and names who administers the estate, while a trust can hold and direct assets during life and after death. Estate work tends to bring clients back over the years as families and holdings change. Keeping wills, trusts and litigation under one roof lets a client stay with attorneys who already know their history.

What the firm documents publicly

The public record on the firm stays consistent across its pages. It gives its legal name as Jurach, Tacey & Quitiquit, PLC, a Richmond office, and a founding year of 2013 for the original Jurach & Quitiquit partnership.

The site's own description ties its attorneys together through shared prosecutor service and a base in the Richmond area courts. Its structured data lists the firm's Facebook and LinkedIn profiles. Those two profiles are the extent of the outside links the firm publishes in its markup.