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		<title>Former bar leader Lewis is disbarred&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/22/former-bar-leader-lewis-is-disbarred/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once a leading Northern Virginia divorce lawyer and former president of the Virginia Bar Association, Vienna attorney Glenn C. Lewis has been stripped of his law license by a panel of the Virginia State Bar disciplinary board. The action Friday came after a hearing on charges that Lewis spent the fees paid by two clients [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Bad faith’ prompts full fee award&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/03/bad-faith-prompts-full-fee-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ERISA plan administrator’s “disingenuous handling” of a death benefits claim has prompted a Richmond federal court to find bad faith and hit the administrator for the full amount of the claimant’s legal fees. Those fees covered two lawsuits that bracketed an administrative hearing and stretched for eight years after the death of Michael Bryner’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local legal rates used for out-of-towners&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/03/21/local-legal-rates-used-for-out-of-towners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buy local, when shopping for legal services. Or if you hire pricey out-of-town lawyers, they should be prepared to accept fees on par with what local counsel are paid. When awarding fees, price-sensitive Richmond federal judges already have resisted ordering parties to pay fees in line with hourly charges for lawyers in the Washington, D.C., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Despite $500 jury award, judge gives consumer lawyer $8K in fees&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/03/12/despite-500-jury-award-judge-give-consumer-lawyer-8k-in-fees/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/03/12/despite-500-jury-award-judge-give-consumer-lawyer-8k-in-fees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Virginia consumer lawyer says a judge’s hefty fee award in an otherwise small-value used car case will encourage lawyers to stand up for consumers even when the stakes are small. Loudoun County Circuit Judge Thomas D. Horne awarded $8,000 to the car buyer’s attorney even though a jury decided the buyer was entitled to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical agency must pay attorney’s tab&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/02/11/medical-agency-must-pay-attorneys-tab/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/02/11/medical-agency-must-pay-attorneys-tab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The agency that administers Virginia’s Medicaid program has been ordered to pay nearly $70,000 for a hospital’s legal fees in a dispute over reimbursement for medical services. The fee award followed rulings that held the Chesapeake hospital did not need to make more than $350,000 in reimbursements to the Department of Medical Assistance Services. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hotel broker hit for fees, punitives&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/12/19/hotel-broker-hit-for-fees-punitives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the face of apparent fraud and no defense, a Virginia federal judge has ordered a hotel brokerage and its owners to pay more than $173,000 in punitive damages, attorneys’ fees and costs to a hotel development company. The award against embattled Molinaro Koger Inc. of Vienna comes on top of a default judgment for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Litigation pitfalls and pratfalls&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/12/10/litigation-pitfalls-and-pratfalls/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/12/10/litigation-pitfalls-and-pratfalls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawyers can find plenty of ways to stay out of a courtroom. Instead of the hand-to-hand combat of a trial before judge or jury, they can opt for some form of alternative dispute resolution. But the lure of the courtroom stays strong, for a whole class of litigators and for those who just enjoy stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fee award more than jury award times 100&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/11/07/fee-award-more-than-jury-award-times-100/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/11/07/fee-award-more-than-jury-award-times-100/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Attorneys Fees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hire a big dog lawyer to handle a dog-bite case, and you can expect a sizeable bill for services. But it was worth it for Eileen McAfee, who won an order requiring the other side to pay over $300,000 in legal fees on a jury award of less than $3,000. McAfee’s case wasn’t a dog-bite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyers paying non-lawyer colleagues&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/10/02/lawyers-paying-non-lawyer-colleagues/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/10/02/lawyers-paying-non-lawyer-colleagues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dolan Media Newswires</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ethics experts and the lawyers they counsel have engaged in a long-running debate about how lawyers can compensate their non-lawyer colleagues. It’s been a contentious issue and a recent decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court highlights the continuing controversy. The Wisconsin Supreme Court held recently that a law firm could pay a paralegal a percentage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fee fights? Ho hum&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/06/02/fee-dispute-program-unpopular-and-unused/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/06/02/fee-dispute-program-unpopular-and-unused/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For nearly 20 years, the Virginia State Bar has been trying to help lawyers resolve fights with clients over fees and billing. The collective reaction of the lawyers: Ho hum. The VSB’s fee dispute resolution program simply hasn’t been used. It has been around for 18 years and currently operates in 12 circuits. The program [...]]]></description>
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