25 presidents of the VSB

Law practice, then and now

By Peter Vieth
Published: September 5, 2011
Tags: VLW 25th Anniversary

The pace of practice has quickened, client relationships may be more transient and civility ebbs and flows in the big city. Small-town general practitioners probably lose the most profitable local cases to competitors with flashy advertising, and business clients view lawyers as mere vendors rather than professional partners. Lawyers are more likely to specialize and [...]

25 years: Technology that changed law practice

By Sarah Rodriguez
Published: September 5, 2011
Tags: Technology, VLW 25th Anniversary

When Virginia Lawyers Weekly first came off the presses in 1986, a typical law office scene might have looked something like this: Legal secretaries clanged away at typewriters, polishing up their attorney’s dictated notes. Paralegals impatiently awaited their turn at the office’s lone computer station to research the LexisNexis database. Associates ran back and forth [...]

25 Years of News

By Paul Fletcher and Alan Cooper
Published: September 5, 2011
Tags: VLW 25th Anniversary

Twenty-five years. Thousands of news stories. Since 1986, Virginia Lawyers Weekly has covered lawyers, judges and law practice across the commonwealth. Each reader might have an idea of what the most important stories were. Below is a 25-year compendium of many of the most significant events, trends and events of the past quarter-century. Take a [...]

25 top verdicts from the past 25 years

By Paul Fletcher
Published: July 18, 2011
Tags: Million-Dollar Verdicts, VLW 25th Anniversary

The largest jury verdict in Virginia in the past 25 years was handed down just this past April – a Vietnam veteran claiming he suffered brain damage after a Botox injection won $212 million from a federal jury in Richmond. The judge reduced the $200 million punitive damages verdict down to the statutory cap of [...]

25 Cases That Changed Law Practice in Virginia

By Deborah Elkins
Published: July 4, 2011
Tags: Important Opinions, VLW 25th Anniversary

Twenty-five years, one quarter of a century, one score and five years. In other words, a heck of a long time. That’s how long Virginia Lawyers Weekly has tracked, analyzed and summarized cases from Virginia state and federal courts. The ways we gather and present court cases have evolved, but our mission has remained the [...]

Celebrating 22 years of “Virginia’s Largest Law Firms”

By Paul Fletcher
Published: April 18, 2011
Tags: VLW 25th Anniversary

Virginia Lawyers Weekly has been publishing for 25 years, since 1986. We’ve been publishing our “Largest Law Firms” feature for 22 years, since 1989. This week’s issue contains the magazine insert with the 2011 edition of “Virginia’s Largest Law Firms.” Back when it debuted, we called the feature “Virginia’s 50 Largest Law Firms.” The quick [...]