Million Dollar Settlements
Published: February 1, 2010
Tags: Million-Dollar Settlements
Attorneys reported 36 million-dollar settlements in 2009 in Virginia Lawyers Weekly, three fewer than last year.
All but three of the settlements had a personal injury component. Two eminent domain cases and a commercial dispute were the only exceptions.
Vehicles were involved half the settlements, and a tractor-trailer was one of the vehicles in six of those [...]
Virginia’s Largest Verdicts of 2009 
Published: January 18, 2010
Tags: Million-Dollar Verdicts
Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s survey of the “Largest Jury Verdicts of 2009” found 21 seven-figure judgments in 2009, six more than last year and one more than we found the previous year.
All but five of the cases had a personal injury component, including seven medical malpractice verdicts, with three of those won by Arlington lawyer William [...]
2009: The Year in Review
Published: December 14, 2009
Tags: Year in Review
It was a tough year that most people – and most lawyers and law firms – will be glad to consign to the dustbin of history.
According to the University of Virginia law school survey we wrote about just last week, after all the economic turmoil, a lot of people feel like something in law practice [...]
July 2009 Virginia Bar Exam results
Published: October 20, 2009
Tags: Bar passers
The following list provides the names of the 1,038 successful candidates who sat for the Virginia bar examination in July 2009. The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners reports that there was a 75.4 percent pass rate; among first-time exam takers, the pass rate of 80.2 percent. At the end is a listing of the 96 [...]
Questions from the 2009 Virginia Bar Exam
Published: August 3, 2009
Editor’s Note: The Virginia Bar Examination was given last week in Roanoke. Below are several actual questions from the 2009 test. How would you fare if you had to take the bar exam today?
1. In 2000, Ben Caldwell, a resident of the County of Roanoke, Virginia executed a valid will by which he left his [...]
#64 (tie) - Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP
Published: May 18, 2009
3190 Fairview Park Drive
Suite 300
Falls Church, VA 22042
(703) 280-9260
(703) 280-9139 (fax)
16 Lawyers
Partners: 7
Associates/Of Counsel: 9
Offices: Falls Church; Baltimore; Columbia, Md.; Towson, Md.; Washington; Wilmington, Del.
# 64 (tie) - Surovell, Markle, Isaacs & Levy PLC
Published: May 18, 2009
4010 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
(703) 251-5400
(703) 591-9285 (fax)
16 Lawyers
Partners: 7
Associates/Of Counsel: 9
Offices: Fairfax (16)
Billing Rates
Partners: $325-450/hr
Associates: $150-275/hr
Annual billable hours expected of associates:
1650
#47 (tie) - Gregory Kaplan PLC
Published: May 18, 2009
7 East Second Street
Richmond, VA 23224
(804) 916-2470
(804) 916-9171 (fax)
21 Lawyers
Offices: Richmond (21)
#37 (tie) - Jackson Lewis LLP
Published: May 18, 2009
10701 Parkridge Blvd.
Suite 300
Reston, VA 20191
(703) 483-8300
(703) 483-8301 (fax)
26 Lawyers
Partners: 16
Associates/Of Counsel: 10
Offices: Reston (23), Richmond (3)
February 2009 Virginia Bar Exam results
Published: May 5, 2009
Tags: Bar passers
A
Bobbette Deborah Abraham, Virginia Beach; Stephen Perrow Adamson Jr., Wilson, Wyo.; Matthew Donald Aichele, Washington; Victoria Lee Allen, Glen Allen; Michael Thomas Andersen, Arlington; Benjamin Martin Andrews, Midlothian; John Samuel Applin, Spotsylvania; Alexander Hamilton Ayers, Richmond
B
John Matthew Baird, Alexandria; Keith David Barrett, Fairfax; Lorraine Lynne Barrett, Sperryville; Robson Dismer Bassett, Charlottesville; Juliet Melissa Bates, [...]
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