The VLW Blog

The Supreme Court of Virginia has asked the Virginia State Bar and the Virginia Bar Association to submit a proposed rule for pro bono practice by corporate counsel. The request followed comments last month by Randal S. Milch, executive vice president and general counsel of Verizon Communications Inc., about “regulatory impediments” by the Virginia State [...]

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Virginia State Bar members will get a little more for their money this year – a temporary bar card that will be replaced in December by a permanent card that will not have to be replaced annually. VSB Executive Director Karen A. Gould said the change ultimately will save money because it will eliminate the [...]

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A lawyer licensed in both Washington, D.C., and New York has been sentenced to two years in prison for conspiring to launder drug money in Virginia. Brian Malady was a crystal meth addict who agreed to hide tens of thousands of drug profits belonging to his Arlington-based supplier, according to authorities. Malady and the supplier [...]

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The University of Virginia’s response to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s demand for information about global warming research is a petition to set aside the “civil investigative demands” served on the school. The Washington Post reports the motion was filed today in Albemarle County Circuit Court and posts a copy of the 10-page petition and [...]

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Lawyers like debate, and they don’t necessarily lose their taste for disputation when they go on the bench. Judge Robert J. Humphreys, of the Virginia Court of Appeals, relishes the intellectual give-and-take on his court. But he misses one of the judges who used to keep him on his toes, according to remarks he made [...]

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Dolan Media Company, the parent company of Virginia Lawyers Media, announced today that it has received stockholder approval to change its corporate name to The Dolan Company. The Minneapolis-based company, a leading provider of professional services and business information to the legal, financial and real estate sectors in the United States, filed an amendment to [...]

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Among the appeals granted recently by the Supreme Court of Virginia is a contention that a Fairfax County Circuit judge erred in allowing a corporate defendant to assert repudiation as a defense to its former president’s breach of contract claim, Robert P. Bennett v. Sage Payment Solutions Inc., Record No. 100199. The president submitted a [...]

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News media lawyers who sued to unseal the court order blocking access to documents in the U.Va. lacrosse killing investigation took the wrong tack with a writ of mandamus directed to the court clerk. That was the ruling today from Charlottesville Circuit Judge Cheryl Higgins, according to WVIR-TV. Higgins apparently agreed with the lawyer for [...]

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Tattoos may have gone mainstream, but if you’ve seen “Miami Ink” or “LA Ink” on cable, you know that tattoo artists remain untamed. The Virginia Court of Appeals acknowledged as much today, when it said a tattoo artist was an “independent contractor,” not an “employee” of a Richmond tattoo parlor operated by Creative Designs Tattooing [...]

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The only remaining claim in the wide-ranging sexual assault lawsuit filed by law professor Kyndra Rotunda against George Mason University is a state law count of assault and battery against her former supervisor, Prof. Joseph Zengerle. Alexandria U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema dismissed the rest of Rotunda’s case, which also named Zengerle and GMU law [...]

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