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		<title>Rehearing petition may work, says court&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/30/rehearing-petition-may-work-high-court-says-and-shows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Teresa M. Chafin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABINGDON – If the Supreme Court of Virginia denies your client’s petition for appeal, take a serious look at a second try, members of the high court said at an April 26 “town hall meeting” on appellate practice. Chief Justice Cynthia D. Kinser, joined fellow Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan and Court of Appeals Judge Teresa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospitals must bill health insurance first&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/19/hospitals-must-bill-health-insurance-first/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trial lawyers hope a new Virginia law will put an end to a hospital billing tactic that threatened to take a bite out of accident victims’ compensation. The General Assembly passed, and Gov. Bob McDonnell signed, a bill requiring hospitals to bill patients’ private health insurance, when available, rather than holding out for a larger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toughen up to seek tough job as judge&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/17/toughen-up-to-seek-tough-job-as-judge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being elected as a judge in Virginia may look like a genteel affair, compared to the hurly-burly of direct election as used in other states. But it doesn’t necessarily feel that way to the would-be judges. You need to develop “skin as thick as an armadillo,” said Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan. She appeared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chief Justice Kinser knows both sides of mentoring&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/08/chief-justice-kinser-knows-both-sides-of-mentoring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the General Assembly worked to fill vacant judgeships on April 3, Chief Justice Cynthia D. Kinser reflected on her own election to the Supreme Court of Virginia. Kinser joined the Metro Richmond Women’s Bar Association to celebrate the bar group’s highly successful mentoring program. Responding to an audience member’s question, Kinser reported being conflicted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Koontz receives VTLA’s Distinguished Service Award&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/03/28/koontz-receives-vtlas-distinguished-service-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Lawyers Weekly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Justice Lawrence L. Koontz Jr.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WILLIAMSBURG&#8211;Virginia Supreme Court Justice Lawrence L. Koontz  Jr. retired from the high court in 2010, after 43 years as a judge. Since leaving the court full-time, he has remained busy, sitting on appeals as a senior justice and working as a mediator with The McCammon Group. On March 23 in Williamsburg, Koontz received one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court to weigh criminal discovery reform&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/02/28/supreme-court-to-weigh-criminal-discovery-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After nine years of study and open conflict alternating with utter disregard, a proposal to liberalize criminal discovery in Virginia is now before the Virginia Supreme Court. With only three negative votes, the Virginia State Bar council on Feb. 23 sent to the court a recommendation for opening prosecutors’ files that emerged from a VSB-appointed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VBA taps leaders for the coming year&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/02/07/vba-taps-leaders-for-the-coming-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Lawyers Weekly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WILLIAMSBURG – Roanoke lawyer Thomas R. Bagby became president of the Virginia Bar Association at the group’s annual meeting in late January. The other new officers of the VBA: John L. Walker III of Richmond as president-elect, Harry M. “Pete” Johnson III of Richmond as chair of the Board of Governors, and Hugh M. Fain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fairfax needs judges&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/02/04/fairfax-needs-judges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Dennis J. Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Jonathan M. Apgar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Robert P. Doherty Jr.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawyers and legislators from various Virginia locales, including populous Fairfax County, say Gov. Bob McDonnell missed the mark when he proposed money to fill certain judgeships. The governor overlooked areas badly in need of judicial help, in part because the available caseload numbers are unreliable, Fairfax lawyers say. Other regions – including Arlington, Charlottesville, Roanoke, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An ‘unzip’ drive: Defense bar pushing new rules for broader access to prosecutors’ files&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/01/28/an-unzip-drive-defense-bar-pushing-new-rules-for-broader-access-to-prosecutors-files/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weary of case-by-case skirmishing over discovery, the criminal defense bar has seized the initiative to push for broad change to the rules governing access to prosecutors’ files. Defense lawyers are one step closer to winning wider access to police reports and prosecutors’ files, as new recommendations go before the Virginia State Bar at the end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editor’s Notebook: ‘It’s only the nine’&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/10/17/editors-notebook-its-only-the-nine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget what you may have read or heard about the Supreme Court of the United States of America, because Justice Clarence Thomas will tell you a somewhat different tale. Thomas appeared before the Metropolitan Richmond Women’s Bar Oct. 16 to shed some light on the workings of the nation’s highest court. “We’re not that far [...]]]></description>
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