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		<title>Blinded employee agrees to $16.5M settlement&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/21/blinded-employee-agrees-to-16-5m-settlement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Virginia machine shop employee blinded in a 2009 accident involving an automated machine tool has settled claims totaling $16.5 million. The manufacturer and seller of a so-called CNC machine and the manufacturer and seller of a specialized tool used in that machine all agreed to the deal, according to lawyers for the employee. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NLRB case on investigations proves puzzling to lawyers&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Atkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Employee handbook restrictions on confidentiality are not the only kind of confidentiality that law firms and other employees have to worry about. When an employer conducts an internal investigation, it usually wants everybody to keep it quiet. Last year, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that a company policy requiring employees to keep interviews related [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investment truths produce long-term success&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dolan Media Newswires</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wealth Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The last five years have sent stocks on a wild ride. First, the October 2007 to March 2009 Great Recession and bear market drove stocks down 50 percent, then the bull market boosted stocks up over 100 percent in under four years. But stocks have averaged less than 1 percent annually since October 2007. Over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rolling 401(k) into an IRA makes sense&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/20/rolling-401k-into-an-ira-makes-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dolan Media Newswires</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently met a married couple of university professors who were interested in improving their investment portfolios and getting a sound financial plan in place. The couple, both in their early 60s, thought their ability to work with a brokerage firm was limited. After all, most of their wealth resided in university-sponsored 401(k) plans. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When staff complains, law firms should listen&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/20/when-staff-complains-law-firms-should-listen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A group of staffers at a Florida law firm showed up at the office all sporting orange shirts. Management wondered what it meant. The firm’s top brass didn’t spend a lot of time pondering the point, they just fired the ensemble. So far, so good. Florida is an at-will employment state, and the firm did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hacked: What to do if your office computers are breached&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/20/hacked-what-to-do-if-your-office-computers-are-breached/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Correy E. Stephenson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Law Office Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While stories of foreign hackers and data breaches may seem unlikely in the commonwealth, “it can happen to anyone,” warned John Simek, vice president of Sensei Enterprises, a digital forensics and information security company in Fairfax. Take the example of criminal defense firm Puckett &#38; Faraj in Alexandria. Last year, the firm was one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developers, state sparred over conservation tax credits&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/17/developers-state-sparred-over-conservation-tax-credits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A court battle over the value of a patch of Albemarle County land has shed light on the often-secret and high dollar business of conservation tax credits and may be a guidepost for using expert appraisal witnesses. While other investors suffered huge losses when the real estate bubble burst in 2008, a Charlottesville developer and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia Tech president retires, reflects on 2007 massacre</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/16/virginia-tech-president-retires-reflects-on-2007-massacre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(AP) — The president of Virginia Tech announced his retirement May 14, satisfied he had elevated the university’s reputation and acknowledging that the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history on his campus would be a part of his legacy. Charles Steger, 65, continues to be a central figure and criticized for the way the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. appeals panel ponders: what is a pirate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Criminal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Courts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Diana Gribbon Motz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Henry F. Floyd]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(AP) — In the violent world of piracy, Mohammad Saaili Shibin was a multilingual negotiator based in lawless Somalia, working his cellphone to negotiate multimillion-dollar ransoms for merchant ships and sailors that dared to venture into pirate-infested international waters off Africa. Does that make him guilty of piracy? The question was the central argument May [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting to file suit aids in $1.7M settlement&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/16/waiting-to-file-suit-aids-in-1-7m-settlement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 12:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Correy E. Stephenson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clarke County Circuit Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Million-Dollar Settlements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirteen years after a serious accident, a 20-year-old college student reached a $1.7 million settlement in a suit over her mild traumatic brain injury. Seven years old at the time of the accident, the plaintiff (whose name and other identifying information remain confidential) was riding in the front seat when a truck ran nearly head-on [...]]]></description>
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