Judge gives law firm all its unpaid fees

Auto Liability Policy Voided for Arrest Record

By Deborah Elkins
Published: October 21, 2011
Tags: Henrico County Circuit Court, Insurance, Judge Catherine Hammond, Virginia Circuit Courts

An auto liability policy is void because the applicant, a sole proprietor who applied as “Kitchens Unlimited LLC,” had a criminal record but denied he had ever been arrested; the Henrico Circuit Court grants judgment to plaintiff insurance carrier in this dec action filed by the applicant and the severely injured plaintiff with whom he [...]

Wife Wants Annulment, Husband Gets Divorce

By Deborah Elkins
Published: August 22, 2011
Tags: Domestic Relations, Henrico County Circuit Court, Judge Catherine Hammond, Virginia Circuit Courts

An American citizen wife who met her Indian national husband through the Internet and married him in Henrico and then again five months later in an “elaborate religious wedding” in India is not entitled to an annulment on the ground that the marriage was not consummated; a Henrico Circuit Court says failure to consummate the [...]

Little consensus on response to decline in jury trials

By Peter Vieth
Published: July 27, 2011
Tags: Judge Catherine Hammond, Justice Donald W. Lemons, Virginia Bar Association

HOT SPRINGS–Lawyers and judges lament the decline in the number of jury trials, but find little common ground on what to do about the trend – or whether anything needs to be done at all. “If you lose the jury trial, the system dies,” said Virginia Supreme Court Justice Donald W. Lemons, expressing a sentiment [...]

Pretrial motions practice, more or less?

By Deborah Elkins
Published: October 29, 2010
Tags: Federal Courts, Judge Catherine Hammond, Judge Robert E. Payne, Twiqbal

Metropolitan Richmond area judges came up with a wish list for motions practice at the area bar associations’ annual bench-bar conference in Richmond on Oct. 21. Chesterfield General District Court Judge Pamela O’Berry sounded a little wistful when she said her court would like to see a few more well-crafted motions. The GDC judges occasionally [...]

Contract – Guaranty – Magazine Advertising

By Deborah Elkins
Published: April 12, 2010
Tags: Contract, Henrico County Circuit Court, Judge Catherine Hammond, Virginia Circuit Courts

A publishing company that provided magazine advertising to a business, “California Closets,” cannot collect on the contract from an hourly employee who signed a personal guaranty that was part of the advertising contract, as the publishing company has not shown that the employee received any consideration for her personal guaranty, in this case from Henrico [...]

Attorneys – Legal Fees – Collection Suit – Construction Dispute

By Deborah Elkins
Published: March 23, 2010
Tags: Attorneys, Henrico County Circuit Court, Judge Catherine Hammond, Virginia Circuit Courts

A law firm that defended a client in a construction dispute, winning summary against the plaintiff and then settling the client’s counterclaim on essentially the same terms suggested by the law firm several months earlier, wins its suit for the balance of its legal fees owed by the client, in this suit from Henrico County [...]