The VLW Blog

Tareq Salahi, the Northern Virginia vintner and polo player now famous for his uninvited attendance with his wife at a White House state dinner, left the courthouse in Front Royal today without his expensive watch. Salahi was haled into court for a debtor’s interrogatory for a $2,000 judgment for lawn care fees.  As reported by [...]

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When John Charles Sanford died after surgery at the MCV hospital in December 2006, his family found a lot of people to blame, from the medical personnel who treated Sanford to the nurses and security personnel who restrained him when he became delusional. Two teams of defense lawyers secured their clients’ consent to joint representation. [...]

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A trial advocacy team from the University of Virginia has accomplished what the school’s football team could not .  It defeated William & Mary. U.Va. here duly notes the fine achievement of its four-member mock trial team in taking the win at the American Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Regional Tournament in Washington D.C. [...]

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"It appears to be a toxic courthouse," Criminal Court Judge Lynn Brown said of the new Washington County (Tenn.) Justice Center, reports the Johnson City Press .   Workers at the gleaming facility in Johnson City have complained of coughing fits, burning eyes and runny noses. Brown said he would not bring jurors into his courtroom [...]

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A Roanoke-based healthcare business says, contrary to assumptions, it really doesn’t want a piece of land the city condemned as part of an effort to boost a bio-medical complex.  The lack of interest comes as news to the owners’ lawyer, who has battled the city over its right to take the property. As we reported [...]

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If you’re wondering why you haven’t received your copy of the Virginia State Bar’s annual update of Professional Guidelines, the answer is that you’ll have to ask for it and the VSB will save money if you don’t. The agency has what it is touting in this month’s VSB E-News as a better, cheaper regulatory [...]

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