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		<title>Medical practice was liable, doctor was not&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/14/medical-practice-was-liable-doctor-was-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Johnny E. Morrison]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court of Virginia has reinstated a jury verdict against a Portsmouth medical practice for alleged sloppy management in the case of a 24-year-old patient who died of pneumonia. The trial judge ruled the $3.5-million verdict had to be set aside because the jury made inconsistent findings &#8211; exonerating the doctor, but finding the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia high court to weigh cameras in courtrooms</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/26/virginia-court-to-weigh-cameras-in-courtrooms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court of Virginia has agreed to look at whether judges have an unfettered right to reject news cameras in their courtrooms, or whether they need a good reason to block access. The issue comes in the appeal arising from the emotion-laden trial of George Huguely V, the University of Virginia student convicted last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-filing market open with new app&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/24/e-filing-market-open-with-launch-of-new-supreme-court-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Accomack County Circuit Court]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Justice Cynthia D. Kinser]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Petersburg Circuit Court]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After years of delay and planning, a Virginia Supreme Court-designed electronic filing system is finally rolling out this month, as other courts cautiously dip toes in the water by using private vendors to provide the interface between the courthouse and users. The court’s launch of its own e-filing system puts the court in competition with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Specialty ad rules back to status quo&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/18/specialty-ad-rules-back-to-status-quo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After announcing rule changes that would have barred lawyers from advertising credentials as specialists, then vacating the new rules a day before their effective date last fall, the Supreme Court of Virginia now has published a new set of lawyer advertising rules that preserves the status quo for specialty claims. In the latest set of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Rule governs voir dire in state civil trials&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/03/29/new-rule-governs-voir-dire-in-state-civil-trials/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/03/29/new-rule-governs-voir-dire-in-state-civil-trials/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court of Virginia’s first-ever rule on voir dire in civil trials will provide more explicit guidance for lawyers and judges about what they can ask potential jurors. The new Rule echoes the current statute governing voir dire, emphasizing that counsel may question jurors “as of right.” That provision might give pause to any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents of two slain at Va. Tech appeal to justices</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/03/13/parents-of-2-slain-at-va-tech-appeal-to-justices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorneys for the families of two Virginia Tech students killed in an April 2007 campus massacre are renewing their bid to put the university&#8217;s president on trial. In a petition for rehearing, the attorneys are seeking a full state Supreme Court hearing on their quest to bring President Charles Steger to trial for negligence in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOAs in chaos&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/03/11/hoas-in-chaos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Lawyers Weekly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homeowners associations in Virginia – and their lawyers – are taking a close look at how they enforce rules and charges after a series of adverse court decisions and the prominent bankruptcy of one Fairfax County community association. The cases have “thrown a lot of HOAs into chaos,” one lawyer said. Attorneys who advise condominiums [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short call was not misconduct&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/02/28/short-call-was-not-misconduct/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Justice William C. Mims]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lawyer who took a telephone call from a distraught adversary did not violate the bar’s ethics rules when she did not immediately hang up, the Supreme Court of Virginia has ruled. The court’s decision clears the record for Heather E. Zaug of Fairfax who received a “dismissal de minimis” for her phone conversation with [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/02/28/supreme-court-to-weigh-criminal-discovery-reform/#comments</comments>
		<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>Supreme Court welcomes new chief staff attorney&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/02/25/supreme-court-welcomes-new-chief-staff-attorney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a changing of the guard at the main gate to the Supreme Court of Virginia, longtime chief staff attorney Gregory E. Lucyk is retiring, to be succeeded by a leader in the field of local government law. The court selected Jacob P. “Jay” Stroman IV to head the office that reviews all the petitions [...]]]></description>
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