The VLW Blog

Law firm recruiters looking to spice up their fall interviews may be inspired by this list of creative questions purportedly posed by some employers. This compilation by CBSMoneyWatch.com may seem a little wacky, but human-resources experts say questions like these boil down to one test: the employer just wants to see how you think on [...]

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Disgruntled Dulles Toll Road drivers had their legal challenge to ever-increasing tolls tossed out of court Thursday by a federal judge who said they didn’t have standing and didn’t have a case, in any event. Virginia drivers John Corr and John Grisby complained about rising toll rates being used – not for the highway itself [...]

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There’s more bad news today about the financial prospects for the law school class of 2010 from NALP. The median starting salary dropped by 13 percent and the mean fell by 10 percent, according to the report from  the National Association for Law Placement. The national median was $63,000 compared with $72,000 for the class [...]

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Richmond-based LeClairRyan has merged with a 14-lawyer New York firm with connections to corporations in Germany, France and the United Kingdom. LeClairRyan chairman Gary D. LeClair said Biedermann, Reif, Hoenig & Ruff PC manages litigation in this country for many of those companies. The expectation is that LeClairRyan lawyers will be doing much of that [...]

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Plenty of lawyers think they’re rock ’n roll, but only a few are willing to put it on the line. Tomorrow night law firm bands will face off in a Battle of the Bands at the Black Cat in Washington, D.C. The Battle is an annual fundraiser for the Gifts for the Homeless program. Headlining [...]

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Are law firms doing so well that they’ve stopped doing good? That’s one response to a new survey of pro bono efforts among the nation’s 200 highest grossing law firms. Of the 174 law firms participating in the AmericanLawyer.com survey, the law firm that saw the biggest drop in pro bono hours – international law [...]

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Holding that “obscene” means more than just “pornographic,” the en banc Court of Appeals of Virginia has affirmed the conviction of a Texas doctor who persistently harassed his estranged wife with vulgar emails. While completing medical training in Texas in 2009, Dennis Barson sent scores of graphic email messages to his wife in Virginia Beach, [...]

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If Virginia judges are feeling a lack of love, maybe they should consider the plight of their judicial brethren in New York. Judges there haven’t had a pay raise in 12 years, according to an article in The New York Times that examines what it perceives as dwindling prestige for judges in New York and [...]

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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says the no-guns-on-campus policy at the University of Virginia lacks the legal authority to overcome the gun-carrying rights of citizens with concealed weapons permits. In a July 1 opinion letter, Cuccinelli draws a distinction between a George Mason University regulation banning guns in school buildings and the U.Va. policy prohibiting [...]

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A memorial service for Richard H. Poff, a retired justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, will be held tomorrow at 4 p.m. at Woody Funeral Home Huguenot Chapel, 1020 Huguenot Road, Midlothian. Burial will take place Thursday at Sunset Cemetery in Christiansburg. Justice Poff died June 28 in Tullahoma, Tenn. He was a longtime [...]

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