Weiner to seek VSB top post 
By Peter Vieth
Published: April 4, 2013
Tags: Virginia State Bar
Fairfax lawyer Edward Weiner has made what he hopes is a preemptive announcement of his bid for presidency of the Virginia State Bar. If elected, he would not become president of the bar until 2015 under the VSB’s elongated leadership track. Even though the filing deadline is not until Oct. 1, Weiner submitted his petition [...]
Prosecutor accepts reprimand from bar
By Peter Vieth
Published: March 20, 2013
Tags: Lawyer Discipline, Virginia State Bar
A prosecutor accused of gathering information from a defense lawyer under false pretenses has agreed to a public reprimand to resolve a Virginia State Bar discipline charge.
Virginia State Bar will need new home
By Peter Vieth
Published: March 4, 2013
Tags: Virginia State Bar
The Virginia State Bar is on the lookout for a new office location. The VSB has been advised the lease for its headquarters in a Richmond office building will not be renewed when it expires in August, so the agency is beginning the process of seeking new digs. The VSB now occupies 24,225 square feet [...]
Short call was not misconduct
By Peter Vieth
Published: February 28, 2013
Tags: Justice William C. Mims, Lawyer Discipline, Supreme Court of Virginia News, Virginia State Bar
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 [...]
Supreme Court to weigh criminal discovery reform
By Peter Vieth
Published: February 28, 2013
Tags: Bar Associations, Discovery, Supreme Court of Virginia News, Virginia State Bar
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 [...]
Beach lawyer beats discipline charge
By Peter Vieth
Published: February 13, 2013
Tags: Judge Louis Allen Sherman, Lawyer Discipline, Norfolk Circuit Court, Personal Injury, Virginia State Bar
A Virginia Beach lawyer charged with misconduct by the Virginia State Bar has been exonerated by the VSB’s disciplinary board. Edward F. Halloran submitted a group of medical bills for two different personal injury claims for a single client, only to have the duplicate bills disallowed by a judge in the second action. The opposing [...]
Lawyer lost license over real estate practices
By Peter Vieth
Published: February 8, 2013
Tags: Lawyer Discipline, Real Estate, Virginia State Bar
A Richmond lawyer who had a high-volume real estate practice has surrendered his law license after findings of long-time lapses in bookkeeping and registration as a settlement agent. G. Dean Foster borrowed money to cover errors in his trust account that at one time totaled $176,000, according to the Virginia State Bar’s findings. In 2006, [...]
An ‘unzip’ drive: Defense bar pushing new rules for broader access to prosecutors’ files
By Peter Vieth
Published: January 28, 2013
Tags: Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Bar Associations, Commonwealth's Attorneys, Criminal, Discovery, Public Defenders, Virginia State Bar
Weary of case-by-case skirmishing over discovery, the criminal defense bar has seized the initiative to push for broad change to the rules governing access to prosecutors’ files. Defense lawyers are one step closer to winning wider access to police reports and prosecutors’ files, as new recommendations go before the Virginia State Bar at the end [...]
‘One-minute phone call’ subject of ethics appeal
By Deborah Elkins
Published: January 11, 2013
Tags: Justice Donald W. Lemons, Justice William C. Mims, Lawyer Discipline, Supreme Court of Virginia News, Virginia State Bar
Imagine walking around in another person’s skin, in order to understand him. Atticus Finch gave that advice to his daughter Scout, and it may have been on the minds of Virginia’s Supreme Court justices when they heard a trio of lawyer discipline cases last week. When a Virginia State Bar complaint comes before the court, [...]
Supreme Court hears lawyer-blogger’s appeal
By Deborah Elkins
Published: January 9, 2013
Tags: Constitutional, Justice Cleo E. Powell, Justice Cynthia D. Kinser, Justice William C. Mims, Lawyer Discipline, Rules of Professional Conduct, Supreme Court of Virginia News, Virginia State Bar
Lawyer-blogger Horace Hunter faced the Supreme Court of Virginia Jan. 8 in the appeal of his disciplinary case, and he said anything he wrote about his clients’ cases is absolutely protected by the First Amendment. First Amendment scholar Rodney Smolla made the case by arguing that Hunter’s blog is not commercial speech, but political speech [...]
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