Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
• Business Transactions
  Corey R. Pollard ** practices in the firm’s Richmond office where he specializes in Social Security Disability and Virginia Workers’ Compensation matters. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of William & Mary, where he graduated cum laude. He earned his law degree cum laude from the University of Richmond. While there, he was a member of the Client Counseling & Negotiation Board, the Journal of Law and the Public Interest, and the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot team. He also placed first in the school’s annual Merhige Environmental Negotiation Competition and received a CALI Excellence for the Future Award for achieving the highest grade in the school’s International Business Transactions class. Mr. Pollard has extensive experience in all aspects of workers’ compensation litigation, both at the administrative hearing level and the appellate stage, and has handled numerous claims involving medical issues relating to injury and disability. He has also handled state and federal litigation in all varieties of commercial matters.

Employment Law

• Workers Compensation
  Managing partner Bruce D. Block* graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism. He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Baltimore School of Law. He has been practicing with the firm since 1980. He has been a speaker for the Maryland Vocational Educational and Work Adjustment Association, the Maryland Workers Compensation Educational Association, and the Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers. He is a sustaining member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives (NOSSCR). Mr. Block’s practice focuses on representing claimants before the Social Security Administration and Workers’ Compensation Commission, as well as individuals who have been injured as a result of another’s negligence.

Property Law

• Premises Liability
  K. Brent Jones is a lifelong resident of Chesterfield County, Virginia, where he represents members of his immediate community and throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. Brent focuses his practice on representing the injured in personal injury and workers’ compensation cases and clients in civil litigation. His experience includes automobile accidents, premises liability, defamation, nuisance claims, and construction disputes. Brent also has experience in business law, consumer protection, debt collection, and commercial and residential landlord-tenant law.
• Construction Litigation
  K. Brent Jones** is a lifelong resident of Chesterfield County, Virginia, where he represents members of his immediate community and throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. Brent focuses his practice on representing the injured in personal injury and workers’ compensation cases, and clients in civil litigation. His experience includes automobile accidents, premises liability, defamation, nuisance claims and construction disputes. Brent also has experience in business law, consumer protection, debt collection, and commercial and residential landlord-tenant law.Brent’s interest in becoming an attorney sparked at the young age of twelve when his father, an electrician, passed away as the result of a work accident. Brent credits watching his mother persevere through a long legal battle after his father’s passing as the driving force for becoming an attorney and helping individuals faced with similar challenges.
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  W. James Nicoll* graduated cum laude from the University of Richmond with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. He completed his law degree at the University of Baltimore School of Law, graduating magna cum laude in 1995. While attending law school, Mr. Nicoll was elected into the Heuisler Honor Society in recognition of his academic achievements. Mr. Nicoll has worked as an attorney with Jenkins, Block & Associates, P.C. since February 1997. After gaining extensive experience representing individuals in their claims for Social Security benefits at both the administrative and appellate levels, Mr. Nicoll’s practice now focuses primarily on representing personal injury clients throughout the state of Maryland. Mr. Nicoll represents individuals who have been injured on the job, as well as individuals who have been hurt as a result of another’s negligence. In his practice, Mr. Nicoll has tried cases at the Circuit Court level in multiple jurisdictions throughout the State. Additionally, Mr. Nicoll has appeared before the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. Mr. Nicoll is a member of the Maryland State Bar Association and the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association.
• Medical Malpractice
  Medical malpractice or negligence can lead to injury or death to a patient when a healthcare provider does not provide care within accepted standards of practice. This may include but is not limited to, failure/error in a timely diagnosis, hospital/physician/nursing negligence, birth defects/injuries, mistakes in surgical procedure, failure to consult appropriately with specialists, failure to order appropriate treatment, pharmaceutical errors and other errors that cause injury. At Jenkins, Block, & Associates we believe you, as the patient, are entitled to know what caused you harm. Medical care and modern medicine is rapidly advancing over time, however negligent practices still take place.
• Auto Accidents
• Social Security Disability
  Robert R. Jenkins (1933–2010) was one of the founding members of Jenkins, Block & Associates. Mr. Jenkins graduated from Lebanon Valley College and received his law degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law. He served as chairperson for the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives. Mr. Jenkins testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee on Social Security Disability matters. Mr. Jenkins has also been a speaker at a workshop for the National Joint Conference on Law and Aging. He founded the firm in 1977 and retired in 2004.

Finance Law

• Debt Collection