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		<title>Failure-to-warn rule tightened in van case&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/01/17/van-fire-case-tightens-rule-in-failure-to-warn-cases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A change of heart by a single justice has brought an end to a short-lived “relaxed” standard for failure-to-warn claims under Virginia products liability law. After rehearing a products liability case, Virginia Supreme Court Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr. switched his position on the standard for use of similar incidents in product failure cases, dashing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insurance defense bar questions adjuster LEO&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/09/12/insurance-defense-bar-questions-adjuster-leo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Virginia State Bar is proposing to give a green light to plaintiffs’ lawyers talking directly with insurance adjusters, but tort defense lawyers are signaling caution. The Virginia Association of Defense Lawyers warns about unintended consequences and oversimplification of the defense lawyer’s role if a proposed legal ethics opinion is adopted. The VSB ethics committee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill creates ‘new class of plaintiffs’&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2012/03/28/bill-creates-%e2%80%98new-class-of-plaintiffs%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[General Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Bob McDonnell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legislation approved by the General Assembly – but not yet signed by the governor – would create a new class of plaintiffs in Virginia civil litigation: representatives of the unborn. Some observers warn the bill creating a cause of action for the wrongful death of a fetus would give birth to a new coterie of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VADA’s Lisa Clement takes group approach&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/11/18/vada%e2%80%99s-lisa-clement-takes-group-approach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richmond lawyer Lisa Frisina Clement says she wants to implement a group approach to improving Virginia’s defense bar after taking the reins of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys. Clement became president of the defense bar at the group’s annual meeting last month in Williamsburg. She is the first woman to lead the VADA, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Draft LEO: Plaintiff is not required to indemnify liens&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/06/09/draft-leo-plaintiff-not-required-to-indemnify-liens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trial lawyers are cheering and the defense bar and at least one corporation are booing a proposed Legal Ethics Opinion on lawyers’ obligations for unpaid liens in personal injury cases. LEO 1858, as drafted, says it is unethical for a plaintiff’s lawyer to indemnify an insurance carrier against any unpaid liens; moreover, it says an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VADA taps Nunnally as its executive director&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/05/16/vada-taps-nunnally-as-its-executive-director/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 09:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jill Wells Nunnally is the new executive director of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys. Nunnally succeeds Leigh Farmer, who resigned after 19 years in the position. A graduate of the University of Virginia and the University of Richmond law school, Nunnally was a law clerk for the Chesterfield County Circuit Court before working in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bills would increase GDC claim limits&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2011/01/06/bills-would-increase-gdc-claim-limits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boyd-Graves Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General District Courts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Bob McDonnell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Injury]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plaintiffs with minor personal injury claims and other civil litigators with small-scale claims may have greater access to Virginia general district courts under a pending legislative proposal. But not everyone thinks that’s a good idea. The plan, contained in two similar bills, would expand the jurisdiction of general district court cases to permit civil cases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judges to rookies: Be aware of your reputation&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2010/12/09/judges-to-rookies-be-aware-of-your-reputation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Gary Hicks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Harold W. Burgess Jr.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rookie lawyers begin building their reputations the moment they set foot in the courtroom. A lawyer can reassure his client by looking like he knows his way around. Before you appear in front of a particular judge, talk to a more seasoned lawyer and find out how the judge likes to run her courtroom, Henrico [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quinn steps up to top VADA role&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2010/10/29/quinn-steps-up-to-top-vada-role/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2010/10/29/quinn-steps-up-to-top-vada-role/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Gulf War service, vetting White House appointees and professional malpractice defense, Dennis Quinn takes charge at the VADA. The new president of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys says his office may be across the Potomac, but he considers himself first and foremost a Virginia lawyer. Dennis Quinn, a member of Washington’s Carr Maloney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with difficult claims adjusters&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2010/10/19/dealing-with-difficult-claims-adjusters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Fletcher</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[HOT SPRINGS&#8211;Every lawyer at some time has encountered a difficult client – the one who is demanding or unreasonable or unrealistic. Or all three. Every lawyer who does civil defense work at some time has encountered a difficult claims adjuster, the insurance company representative with the power to say thumbs up or down to a [...]]]></description>
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