The VLW Blog

Reston lawyer Robert T. Hall is the author of the two $10 million wrongful death lawsuits filed against Virginia Tech officials on behalf of families of two victims of the shootings there in 2007.  The lawsuits were filed yesterday, the two-year anniversary of the shootings, in Fairfax County Circuit Court. The lawsuits are posted online [...]

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A military-style training camp planned for the bucolic Shendandoah Valley has some neighbors up in arms. A local developer recently applied for a permit to construct the Shenandoah Valley Corporate Training Center on a 920-acre farm just east of U.S. 11, reports The Daily News Record. The training center would include four firing ranges, an [...]

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A former military contractor convicted in Virginia of stealing $40 million worth of government fuel in Iraq is helping authorities find his accomplices around the globe. According to the Associated Press, the thefts occurred in 2007 and 2008 from Camp Liberty in Baghdad. Lee W. Dubois, who has since pleaded guilty to theft of government [...]

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What better place to troll for money from liberal – relatively speaking anyway – Virginians than The New York Times? That appears to be the thinking of Common Sense Virginia, a state political action committee that is sponsoring The Real Bob Mcdonnell Web site. Visitors to The Times Web site from Virginia are likely to [...]

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Snarky political humor was at a peak in the sandy woods of Wakefield yesterday as politicians, their followers, and fans of salty fish gathered to eat, drink, and be entertained. The Wakefield Shad Planking is an annual test of candidates’ sign posting power and sense of humor. As reported by the Daily Press, Democratic gubernatorial [...]

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Just five days after a Botetourt County man blasted an intruder with a shotgun in a killing pronounced self-defense by authorities, a Campbell County resident apparently finds herself in a similar position. The sheriff’s department tells The News & Advance a 35-year-old man was shot and killed today at a Long Island residence in what’s [...]

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A Newport News jury has awarded $420,000 to a woman who contended that an attorney mishandled her divorce case. The attorney, Amy M.P. VanFossen, who was practicing with Jones, Blechman, Woltz & Kelly PC at the time, failed to preserve her client’s right to spousal support. VanFossen testified that she made a mistake in thinking [...]

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Lawyers from points beyond Richmond can breathe a sigh of relief. An occasional appearance before a local court or state agency does not mean the lawyer can be haled into court before a famously generous Richmond jury. Staunton lawyer Boyce E. Brannock, sued in Richmond Circuit Court, managed to get the legal malpractice action transferred [...]

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Hookah lounges – where customers use water pipes to smoke flavored tobacco – could face extinction with Virginia’s new smoking ban, owners tell the Loudoun Times-Mirror. The smoking dens, operated out of restaurants, apparently are popular with students and Middle Easterners in Northern Virginia.  Nevertheless, the new law that goes into effect Dec. 1 will [...]

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Harold W. Burgess Jr., a juvenile  and domestic relations district court judge in Chesterfield County and Colonial Heights, appears to have the inside track on the circuit court vacancy created by the elevation of Judge Cleo E. Powell to the Virginia Court of Appeals. The General Assembly elected McGuireWoods partner John V. Cogbill III to [...]

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