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Three lawyers and a district court judge have expressed interest in a circuit court seat in Accomack County. Last month, the Eastern Shore Bar Association endorsed longtime Accomack attorney W. Revell Lewis III, according to the Eastern Shore News. Accomack lawyers Thomas Northam and Thomas B. Dix Jr. have also expressed interest in the judgeship, [...]

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A man’s motives in sending dirty e-mails to his estranged wife may come in for a second look when the Virginia Court of Appeals rehears the case of Dennis Barson. Over a six-month period, Barson had sent “vulgar, offensive and sexually explicit” e-mails to his wife Amanda and to friends and family, accusing Amanda of [...]

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Del. Dave Albo, chairman of the House Courts of Justice Committee, has introduced House Bill 1459 to seal the deal that the Virginia Trial Lawyers and the Medical Society of Virginia reached to increase the cap on medical malpractice awards by $50,000 a year over the next 20 years. VTLA Executive Director Jack Harris said [...]

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President Barack Obama has nominated federal public defender Arenda Wright Allen and U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael F. Urbanski for two U.S. district court judgeships in Virginia. Wright Allen is the assistant federal public defender in charge of the Norfolk office. She is nominated to replace District Judge Jerome Friedman. Urbanski has been a U.S. magistrate [...]

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Jacqueline K. Cunningham will succeed Alfred W. Gross as Virginia’s Commissioner of Insurance when Gross retires at the end of the year. Cunningham has been deputy commissioner of the life and health division of the State Corporation Commission’s Bureau of Insurance for six-and-a-half years. She has worked within the bureau since 1993. Gross has been [...]

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Officials with the American Bar Association are hailing U.S. Senate action to exempt lawyers from the so-called “Red Flags” rules designed to combat credit fraud. According to a statement by Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., a bill approved by the Senate makes it clear that the law will not apply to lawyers, doctors, dentists, accountants and [...]

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