Posted in Attorneys, Unpublished Orders on Jun 10th, 2011
The Supreme Court of Virginia upheld yesterday the 60-day suspension of a Virginia Beach lawyer for a lack of diligence in attending to the affairs of an incarcerated client.
A three-judge panel imposed the suspension on Charles L. Pincus III after hearing testimony from Pincus and the client.
She said she expected Pincus to investigate and file [...]
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The Supreme Court of Virginia has upheld an award of attorneys’ fees and costs that was larger than the amount the property owner recovered in her inverse condemnation case.
The court entered an order last week that there was no reversible error in City of Newport News v. Yoder, Record No. 110036.
The contentiousness of the case [...]
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An opinion day ritual at the Supreme Court of Virginia has ended.
Attorneys who had had their case decided would gather in the fifth floor clerk’s office shortly before 9:30 and join messengers and a journalist or two to wait for printed copies of opinions.
Many of the attorneys had been in the courtroom to hear a [...]
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Posted in Attorneys, Justices on Sep 30th, 2010
L. Steven Emmert, perhaps the most active appellate attorney in state courts and the host of the popular www.virginia-appeals.com website, says he will seek the Supreme Court of Virginia seat that will be created by the retirement of Justice Lawrence L. Koontz Jr.
It will be interesting to follow his quest since he has neither of [...]
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Posted in Attorneys on Sep 22nd, 2010
Lawyers with cases on appeal to the Supreme Court of Virginia may get a “Rule to Show Cause.”
The rule is nothing like the one the court issued recently to a Winchester lawyer who suggested the court “didn’t have the guts to handle” an issue he had raised on appeal. The court dismissed the rule, but [...]
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Posted in Attorneys, Justices on Sep 16th, 2010
Update: 09/16/2010, 4:36 p.m.
It was enough. Barely three hours after Crane appeared before the Supreme Court, it issued the following order: “Upon consideration of the apology proffered by William A. Crane, the Rule to Show Cause is dismissed.”
An obviously nervous and contrite William A. Crane found at least one sympathetic member of the Supreme Court [...]
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Posted in Attorneys, Justices on Sep 14th, 2010
Update 09/15/2010, 9:35 a.m.
William Crane will appear before the Supreme Court of Virginia at the end of its docket Thursday rather than this afternoon as originally scheduled. Crane is attending a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery today.
The Supreme Court of Virginia invited Winchester attorney William A. Crane to write a brief not to exceed 15 [...]
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Posted in Attorneys, Unpublished Orders on Jul 30th, 2010
In an unpublished order, the Supreme Court of Virginia today upholds the 12-month suspension of Norfolk lawyer Curtis Tyrone Brown’s license to practice law.
A three-judge panel concluded that Brown made a false statement to a judge and disrupted a judicial proceeding.
Brown misrepresented to a Chesapeake Circuit Court judge in front of a jury the circumstances [...]
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Posted in Attorneys on May 28th, 2010
The Supreme Court of Virginia has asked the Virginia State Bar and the Virginia Bar Association to submit a proposed rule for pro bono practice by corporate counsel.
The request followed comments last month by Randal S. Milch, executive vice president and general counsel of Verizon Communications Inc., about “regulatory impediments” by the Virginia State Bar [...]
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Posted in Attorneys, Unpublished Orders on May 14th, 2010
What part of no don’t you understand?
Chesterfield lawyer Richard C. Ferris II tried four times to get a circuit judge to set aside a default judgment entered against his client – the original pleading, a motion to reconsider, a second motion asking for reconsideration because the testimony of a witness at the first reconsideration hearing [...]
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