The VLW Quick 10: Cases about food 
By Peter Vieth
Published: August 28, 2009
You eat every day, contemplating only digestion, not litigation. Yet there has been a steady stream of lawsuits over food since the earliest reported cases. Here are a few of more recent vintage, all from Virginia:
1. Buckshot in the ham. Maybe the quail hunt strayed too close to the barnyard, but a 1965 Virginia case [...]
VLW Quick 10: Closing Arguments in the Movies
By Deborah Elkins
Published: August 17, 2009
Litigators say that trying a case means telling a story. Lots of lawyer movies follow a narrative arc up to a climactic closing argument. Some of the summations in this list of flicks caused fireworks, some landed with a thud. Members of the academy, you may cast your votes.
Frank Galvin in “The Verdict” (1982 ): [...]
The VLW Quick 10: Reasons to Strike Jurors (that have survived Batson)
By Deborah Elkins
Published: August 5, 2009
U.S. v. Batson and the cases that have followed that decision say that a lawyer can’t strike a potential juror based on race or gender. What reasons can a lawyer use? Here are 10 that worked in Virginia, taken from the pages of our paper:
1. INATTENTIVENESS. A juror was “looking all around the courtroom, not [...]
Lawyer Could-Have-Beens
By Paul Fletcher
Published: July 9, 2009
The following 10 people earned a law degree but moved into a different line of work instead of law practice:
1. Tony LaRussa
Manager of the St. Louis Cardinals.
Law degree from Florida State.
2. Steve Young
Hall of Fame quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, now a broadcaster.
Law degree from Brigham Young.
3. Ozzie Nelson
Bandleader, later star of “Ozzie and [...]
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