The VLW Blog

The Pittsburgh-based firm of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC has attracted another prominent partner from the Richmond office of LeClairRyan. Brian L. Buniva joined Eckert Seamans environmental and litigations practices yesterday. Buniva is a member of Virginia State Bar Council and has chaired its administrative and environmental law sections. Eckert Seamans opened a Richmond [...]

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Kathryn Steenburgh and Glen Weaver bought a house together in 2000. Steenburgh made a down payment of $42,000, and Weaver paid the mortgage and casualty insurance. The couple had a child together. But 10 years later, the thrill was gone. Steenburgh petitioned a Hanover Circuit Court for partition of the real estate. Given that the [...]

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The judges of the 23rd Judicial Circuit of Virginia unanimously elected William D. Broadhurst as chief judge. His two-year term began July 1. Judge Broadhurst succeeds Charles N. Dorsey as chief judge of the circuit, which includes the City of Roanoke, the City of Salem and Roanoke County.

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A drywall supplier and contractor have filed an interlocutory appeal of a Norfolk trial judge’s order to consolidate cases alleging property damage and personal injury from defective Chinese drywall. The petition filed yesterday with the Supreme Court of Virginia contends that consolidation of the cases is inappropriate because the individual claims vary and involve at [...]

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A Fairfax Circuit judge has ordered a Northern Virginia lawyer and his client to pay the attorneys’ fees and costs of two defendants they sued in a residential real estate tangle. Total price tag: About $272,000. Judge Jonathan C. Thacher called the litigation “vindictive” and chided the lawyer and client for taking a claim to [...]

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Leroy R. Hassell Jr. – son of Virginia Chief Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell Sr. – has been charged with armed robbery in connection with an alleged home invasion in Henrico County on Monday. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports Hassell, 23, was arrested early Thursday and is being held without bond pending a hearing on Friday. He [...]

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U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson promised a decision within 30 days on whether Virginia has standing to challenge the federal health care law. The judge heard about two hours of arguments today on the federal government’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. “From time to time it’s up to [...]

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For the first time in U.S. history, vampires have been allowed into the halls of justice. The fever for vampires – who seem to have taken over our popular culture – has invaded a federal courtroom. Vampires tend to be a good looking group of people, with a tendency to be overly dramatic, and a [...]

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