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Capital One’s Justice Server program links pro bono lawyers to clients

By Deborah Elkins
Published: January 20, 2012
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Lawyers and information-technology experts at Capital One are teaming up with private and public sector lawyers to streamline the administration of pro bono legal work in Virginia.
Lawyers who do pro bono work find that one of the best ways to reach clients is to work through state and local legal aid organizations. Legal aid offices [...]

Looking back on 2011: The year in legal news (access required)

By Paul Fletcher and Peter Vieth
Published: December 12, 2011
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The reversal of a 20-year-old noncompete case lead the case news from Virginia Lawyers in 2011. Much of the first half of year featured news from the General Assembly.
Officials at the Virginia State Bar sparred with legislators over $5 million that Gov. Bob McDonnell wanted to take. And the Hernandez case – which allowed judges [...]

Chief Justice Kinser, politely, pushes back  (access required)

By Peter Vieth
Published: May 11, 2011
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ROANOKE—Virginia Chief Justice Cynthia D. Kinser has sounded a note of polite resistance to General Assembly efforts to expand the legislature’s control of the state’s courts.
In her inaugural State of the Judiciary address at the Virginia Judicial Conference in Roanoke Tuesday, Kinser urged judges to “recommit to preserving the rightful esteem in which our judiciary [...]

The Chancellor has left the building (access required)

By Peter Vieth
Published: March 14, 2011
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ROANOKE—Virginia Supreme Court Justice Lawrence L. Koontz Jr., who retired Jan. 31, says lawyers should be on the lookout for what he sees as the court’s increasingly technical scrutiny of appeals.
Koontz said he has observed the court become gradually stricter on procedural issues, such as the need for explicit contemporaneous objection to preserve a point [...]

Courts committees set process for filling judicial vacancies (access required)

By Alan Cooper
Published: March 11, 2011
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David B. Albo, chairman of the House Courts of Justice Committee, has asked the Virginia State Bar to vet additional candidates to fill two vacancies on the Supreme Court of Virginia.
Karen A. Gould, executive director of the VSB, said the agency’s judicial nominating committee would attempt to do so, despite a schedule that would have [...]

Kinser formally installed as high court’s new chief (access required)

By Alan Cooper
Published: February 17, 2011
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Cynthia Dinah Fannon Kinser was formally invested yesterday as Virginia’s first woman chief justice and only the 25th person to hold that position in the long history of the commonwealth.
With family, friends and much of the state’s political elite in front of her, Kinser said, “When I first became a lawyer many years ago, I [...]

Justice Leroy Hassell dies (access required)

By Paul Fletcher
Published: February 9, 2011
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Virginia Supreme Court Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell Sr. died Feb. 8 after a long illness. He was 55.
He was the first African-American to lead the court when he was elected chief in 2002; it was the first time the members of the court chose their leader. He served two four-year terms. Chief Justice Cynthia [...]

Proposal: Expand pro bono by corporate counsel (access required)

By Alan Cooper
Published: January 5, 2011
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Corporate counsel would be able to provide pro bono legal services without the supervision now required by rules of court, according to a proposal by a joint task force of the Virginia State Bar and the Virginia Bar Association.
The proposal would apply to attorneys licensed in another state but limited largely to representing their corporate [...]

McDonnell to VSB: Hand over $5M (access required)

By Peter Vieth
Published: December 20, 2010
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Gov. Bob McDonnell has blindsided the Virginia State Bar with a budget proposal to take $5 million from the VSB and effectively wipe out the bar’s reserve.
The plan, referenced in budget documents released by the governor Dec. 16, came as a surprise to officials at the VSB. VSB President Irving M. Blank said he still [...]

‘Deal’ on liability didn’t waive jury (access required)

By Peter Vieth
Published: November 10, 2010
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In upholding a $5 million jury verdict for a disabled shipyard worker, the Supreme Court of Virginia has reaffirmed a plaintiff’s right to a jury trial and signaled its close scrutiny of claims about the appellate record.
It’s the second visit to the Supreme Court for the case of former longshoreman Sherman Whitaker, who suffered two [...]

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