Manage online presence for maximum benefit
By Deborah Elkins
Published: June 29, 2009
VIRGINIA BEACH – A lawyer logs in to an e-mail list for a bar group of which she is a member. Another member posts a hypothetical case that sounds awfully familiar.
Over several days, the lawyer watches opposing counsel in one of her cases try out different theories. The lurking lawyer warns others in her firm [...]
An outsider sees the VSB Council in action for the first time
By David A. Oblon
Published: June 29, 2009
On June 18, the Virginia State Bar Council simultaneously created a Diversity Conference – and discriminated against it. Really.
Currently there are three VSB “Conferences” – Young Lawyers, Senior Lawyers, and Local Bars. Unlike these Conferences, the new Diversity Conference will not enjoy a seat on the Executive Board or funding by the VSB. So, while [...]
Three receive VSB honors at Beach
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: June 29, 2009
Holton recognized by Family Law Section
Virginia First Lady Anne B. Holton has received the 2009 Family Law Service Award presented by the Virginia State Bar’s Family Law Section.
The award recognizes people and organizations that have improved family, domestic relations or juvenile law in the state. Holton, a former juvenile and domestic relations district judge in [...]
Judge Marilynn Goss gets 2009 ‘Excellence’ award
By Alan Cooper
Published: June 29, 2009
Volunteering to see legal aid clients in the evening while trying to start a law practice seemed like a good idea when Marilynn C. Goss finished law school and passed the bar exam in 1982.
Money soon became available to hire a night staff attorney, and Goss applied for the job and got it.
In a [...]
Irv Blank becomes VSB president-elect
By Alan Cooper
Published: June 29, 2009
Irving M. Blank, a Richmond attorney and a member of the executive committee of the Virginia State Bar, became president-elect of the VSB June 19.
Blank, 65, is a partner in the three-attorney firm of ParisBlank LLP. He was elected to bar council in 2003 and appointed to the executive committee three years later.
He grew up [...]
As you prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July…
By Philip Blackburn
Published: June 29, 2009
My first trip to Denmark was in 1987. I had read about an extraordinary event, and I wanted to be part of it. Prior to my trip, I learned that Denmark celebrates our country’s Independence Day, the Fourth of July. Who knew?
Let me first set the scene for this adventure I’m about to share with [...]
VSB Awards
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: June 29, 2009
The Virginia State Bar’s Conference of Local Bar Associations holds an Awards of Merit competition each year to recognize outstanding public service projects conducted by local and specialty bars throughout the commonwealth.
The awards given are divided into two categories:
• An Award of Merit, the highest award given to a project, and
• A Certificate of Achievement, recognizing other [...]
Effort to block Vermont order fails in appeals court
By News in Brief
Published: June 29, 2009
A Virginia woman who has been fighting for years to deny child-visitation rights to her former lesbian partner lost another round in the Virginia Court of Appeals last week.
In a case closely watched by national gay rights and conservative Christian groups, the court unanimously upheld Winchester Circuit Judge John R. Prosser’s dismissal of Lisa Miller’s [...]
U.Va. law school to host clinic for low-income families
By News in Brief
Published: June 29, 2009
Starting this fall, the University of Virginia law school will offer a clinic designed to help low-income families resolve legal issues through mediation or other options outside of a courtroom.
The yearlong Family Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic will focus primarily on custody, divorce, visitation and support issues.
The clinic will partner with the Mediation Center of Charlottesville, [...]
Daughter of chief justice convicted of shoplifting
By News in Brief
Published: June 29, 2009
A retired judge has convicted the daughter of Virginia Chief Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell Sr. of shoplifting and imposed a suspended jail term of 30 days.
Joanna L. Hassell, 18 and a student at the University of Virginia, was stopped after she left Macy’s at Regency Square mall in Henrico County on April 11 without paying [...]
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