The VLW Blog

After conflicts arose with two prosecutors’ offices, a Norfolk judge has appointed a criminal defense attorney to take over the government’s case against a man accused in a fatal auto crash. WTKR reports the judge appointed lawyer B. Thomas Reed to act as special prosecutor in the case against Richard Freeman, who is charged with [...]

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Add one more admonition to that list of things you shouldn’t do: Don’t steal the judge’s gavel. In the “what was he thinking?” category, this item has to take a prize. An Ohio man was caught on videotape as he appears to pilfer a gavel straight from a judge’s bench. Obviously unaware of surveillance cameras [...]

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Karl Larson may not be the first employee to think his job would be fine if his supervisor would just leave him alone. Larson sued to make that happen. He said he suffered post-traumatic stress after a “verbal altercation” with his supervisor and he filed a disability discrimination suit asking the court to order the [...]

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The state appears unlikely to get new judges before April 25 at the earliest, although the Republican caucus in the House of Delegates selected Virginia Court of Appeals Judges D. Arthur Kelsey and Elizabeth A. McClanahan as its candidates for two vacancies on the Supreme Court of Virginia. If those two are elected to the [...]

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Brian F. Kenney will be the new U.S. Bankruptcy Judge in Alexandria. The judges of the 4th U.C. Circuit Court of Appeals tapped Kenney for the pending vacancy created when Judge Stephen S. Mitchell announced he will retire from the court Aug. 31. Mitchell has served since 1994. Kenney is a principal in the Tysons [...]

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A Richmond federal judge has ruled a legislator’s emails to his wife about an expected new job are admissible in his bribery trial, even though the emails were sent before a privacy policy was enacted at the legislator’s workplace. U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson held the emails are admissible in the trial of former Del. [...]

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“Personal safety” is a sufficient reason for carrying a gun to church, according to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. While a long standing Virginia law makes it a misdemeanor to bring a gun to a “place of worship” during a “meeting for religious purposes” without “good and sufficient reason,” Cuccinelli concludes that “self-defense and personal [...]

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Russell V. Palmore Jr., a Richmond lawyer and chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, died April 7 following surgery for cataracts. He was 64. Mr. Palmore was an associate and partner at Troutman Sanders LLP and its predecessor Mays & Valentine for 38 years. As chancellor of the diocese, he played a key role [...]

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The Virginia Tech basketball coach has more to worry about than his team’s snub by the NCAA. A $2.5-million lawsuit filed last month names Greenberg and his “Seth Greenberg Basketball Camp” at Virginia Tech. The suit claims 15-year-old Austin Schuler of Augusta County was severely injured when his head hit a cinder block wall around [...]

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NORFOLK–Virginia Lawyers Weekly won first place for feature story writing at the 2010 Virginia Press Association news, editorial and photo awards, announced Saturday night at the VPA’s annual meeting in Norfolk. The winning piece was “A Veterans Day Story,” written by Paul Fletcher and published last November. Virginia Lawyers Weekly competed in the specialty publications [...]

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