VSB, other groups endorse federal candidates

Proposal: Expand pro bono by corporate counsel

By Alan Cooper
Published: January 5, 2011
Tags: Corporate Counsel, Supreme Court of Virginia News, Virginia Bar Association, Virginia State Bar

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 [...]

Thawing the judicial freeze may be hard

By Alan Cooper
Published: December 13, 2010
Tags: General Assembly, Judgeships, Virginia Bar Association, Virginia State Bar, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association

Lobbyists know that legislators pay attention to pain. There’s plenty of pain to go around these days, as members of Virginia’s General Assembly gird their loins for the start to the 2011 legislative session. Lawyers who want to get legislators’ attention need to tell stories about how their clients are being affected by the decision [...]

4th Circuit judges give help with ‘Rule of Law’ project

By Peter Vieth
Published: November 29, 2010
Tags: Federal Courts, Judge G. Steven Agee, Judge Roger L. Gregory, Virginia Bar Association

Middle and high school students around Virginia are getting schooled in the importance of the law through the Virginia Bar Association’s Rule of Law project. Events this month have exposed students to the unique government lesson in Petersburg, the Charlottesville area and the Roanoke Valley. The education initiative has attracted top flight instructors. Judges Roger [...]

Busch wants VBA to help veterans

By Paul Fletcher
Published: October 19, 2010
Tags: Virginia Bar Association

Virginia Bar Association President Steve Busch wants the VBA to do for veterans what it already does for the needy and hungry – to help by raising money and awareness. Busch has issued a call to action to members of the association to help raise funds for the Veterans Benefits Clinic at the William & [...]

12 Steps, 25 Years: Lawyers Helping Lawyers marks anniversary

By Alan Cooper
Published: October 11, 2010
Tags: Justice Harry L. Carrico, Virginia Bar Association, Virginia State Bar

In its 25 years of serving impaired attorneys, Lawyers Helping Lawyers has reached out to lawyers wherever they can: at home, in the office, even in judges’ chambers. But one longtime supporter says they’ve only touched the “tip of the iceberg.” William D. Dolan III wanted to develop an organization to help lawyers addicted to [...]

VBA pushes for ‘Rule of Law’ program in every middle school

By Peter Vieth
Published: July 21, 2010
Tags: Virginia Bar Association, Virginia Law Foundation

The Virginia Bar Association continues its drive to make the Virginia Rule of Law program part of curriculum of every Virginia middle school. The VBA is working with the Virginia Law Foundation, which is offering 10 grants of $2,500 each to local bar associations that adopt the program. Under the program, lawyers join with teachers [...]

2010 Legal Food Frenzy sets record

By Alan Cooper
Published: May 4, 2010
Tags: Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia Bar Association

The Richmond firm of Schettine & Nguyen PLC has won the Attorney General’s Cup for the third year in a row in the annual Legal Food Frenzy competition. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced Tuesday that Virginia’s legal community raised more than 1.7 million pounds of food during the competition from April 15 through April 16. [...]

VBA Diversity Job Fair set for August

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: May 3, 2010
Tags: Virginia Bar Association

The Virginia Bar Association will hold its fourth annual diversity job fair Aug. 21 at the Embassy Suites Richmond, 2925 Emerywood Parkway. The deadline for registering is June 14, and the $300 registration fee includes hotel accommodations for Friday night and use of an interview room on Saturday. A reception Friday evening and lunch on [...]

Chief Justice convenes pro bono summit

By Alan Cooper
Published: April 28, 2010
Tags: Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia Bar Association

Pro bono legal efforts in Virginia are as varied as the state’s regions, according to comments Tuesday at a pro bono summit called by Chief Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell Sr. The Charlottesville area is “blessed,” as attorney Jonathan T. Blank put it, with a vibrant local bar, an innovative legal aid organization and clinics supported [...]