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		<title>Letter to the Editor</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/06/10/letter-to-the-editor-17/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Lawyers Weekly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor Virginia Lawyers Weekly I read with interest your editorial of June 3, 2013, regarding the Diversity Conference of the Virginia State Bar.  In it, you noted the creation of the conference amid a certain amount of controversy in 2010, and advocated for modifying the compromise reached at that time by permitting funding of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change of venue? VSB weighing new locations for 2014 meeting&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The uncertain future of the landmark Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach could mean a break from a 35-year tradition for the Virginia State Bar next year. Leaders and staff of the VSB are considering taking the bar’s 2014 Annual Meeting to other Beach hotels instead of to The Cavalier for the first time since 1978. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALPS condition upgraded to ‘Stable’&#160;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legal malpractice insurer ALPS says it has overcome the ailments that last year led a rating agency to drop its company outlook from “Stable” to “Negative.” The outlook for ALPS has returned to “Stable,” according to the A.M. Best Co. rating. Best reaffirmed the financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bar faced with split on ‘reciprocal discipline’&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/06/03/bar-faced-with-split-on-reciprocal-discipline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board panel has rejected the bar’s bid to suspend a Virginia lawyer’s license based on a suspension imposed by a federal judge. The May 17 action – on a 3-2 vote – appears to conflict with a 2002 VSB decision suspending a lawyer based on punishment by the U.S. Patent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: Not as separate, still not quite equal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 11:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Fletcher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Later this month the Virginia State Bar Council almost certainly will vote to give the VSB’s Diversity Conference a seat on its governing body, the Executive Committee. The DC took care of some housekeeping amendments requested at the February meeting, so it will get the seat, similar to the other three VSB conferences: the Young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debate of criminal discovery now shifts to Supreme Court&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/31/debate-of-criminal-discovery-now-shifts-to-supreme-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 11:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debate over proposed rule changes to open up criminal discovery has officially moved to the Supreme Court of Virginia. The court has asked for comments on suggested amendments offered by a Virginia State Bar task force, including a requirement for prosecutors to turn over police reports to defense lawyers. A similar package of proposals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyer suspended for pocketing fees&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/29/lawyer-suspended-for-hiding-fees-from-law-firm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 13:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Virginia lawyer who pocketed client fees under the table while working as an associate for a Manassas law firm has had his law license suspended for two months. The 60-day suspension for Michael C. Fasano stands in sharp contrast to the penalties for a Richmond lawyer who committed a similar violation – on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former bar leader Lewis is disbarred&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/22/former-bar-leader-lewis-is-disbarred/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once a leading Northern Virginia divorce lawyer and former president of the Virginia Bar Association, Vienna attorney Glenn C. Lewis has been stripped of his law license by a panel of the Virginia State Bar disciplinary board. The action May 17 came after a hearing on charges that Lewis spent the fees paid by two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia lawyers find trouble in Maryland&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/01/virginia-lawyers-find-trouble-in-maryland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 14:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A trio of Virginia-licensed lawyers recently found themselves facing criminal or disciplinary action in this state after first running afoul of authorities in Maryland. A lawyer who pleaded guilty in Maryland to taking part in a small business loan fraud scheme said to involve more than $100 million in losses now has admitted to misappropriating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rehearing petition may work, says court&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/30/rehearing-petition-may-work-high-court-says-and-shows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Teresa M. Chafin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABINGDON – If the Supreme Court of Virginia denies your client’s petition for appeal, take a serious look at a second try, members of the high court said at an April 26 “town hall meeting” on appellate practice. Chief Justice Cynthia D. Kinser, joined fellow Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan and Court of Appeals Judge Teresa [...]]]></description>
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