The VLW Blog

When to call the carrier is a question that always crosses the mind of a lawyer who realizes he has made a mistake. Many malpractice policies say a lawyer has a duty to notify the carrier if he did something he knew, or reasonably should have known, would support a demand for damages. Failure to [...]

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Richmond lawyer Steven D. Benjamin will be sworn in Saturday as president-elect of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) at its 53rd annual meeting in Denver. Benjamin has previously served as first- and second vice-president, treasurer, secretary and a member of the association’s the board of directors. The president-elect serves a one-year term [...]

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The National Center for State Courts has named Davison M. Douglas, dean of the College of William and Mary law school, a recipient of its 2010 Distinguished Service Award for contributions to the judiciary. The center cited Douglas’ contribution as a founder of the Election Law Program, a joint venture of NCSC and the law [...]

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A federal jury Tuesday found Verizon infringed patents for video-on-demand technology, delivering a big-dollar victory for a small tech company founded by a Virginia Beach man. “We’re ecstatic,” one company lawyer told The Virginian-Pilot. The jury had been hearing testimony for three weeks in the case that focused on Verizon’s FiOS cable television service. In [...]

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Whether a private plaintiff may sue a surety under Virginia’s CRESPA statute is a question that was certified today to the Supreme Court of Virginia by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Several Virginia state and federal courts that have considered the question have found no private right of action under Virginia’s Consumer Real [...]

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Come listen to the tale of Tammy Taylor and Curtis Cole. Cole married Taylor in 1995. Somewhere along the way, the romance must have faded. In 2005, Cole went through a marriage ceremony with Donna Vincent without first divorcing Taylor. Cole claimed on his marriage license application that he had never been married. Cole claimed [...]

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The relationship between the American Bar Association and the National Association for Law Placement may be a victim of the bad market for law school graduates. In the past, the ABA has relied on NALP to collect and sort detailed data from law schools about jobs and salaries. But according to the The National Law [...]

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It’s a hard-fought, high-stakes trade secrets case, with scads of pretrial motions and some two-dozen lawyers involved. A jury trial is set to start this week in Richmond federal court in E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Kolon Industries Inc. DuPont sued in 2009, alleging Kolon, a South Korean company, and its U.S. [...]

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Guy K. Tower, who stepped down last month after six years as executive director of the Virginia Bar Association, has rejoined The McCammon Group. Tower was a founding member of The McCammon Group in 1995 before leaving in 2003 to become director of judicial education for the Supreme Court of Virginia. He was chosen to [...]

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Hoping to avoid prison reprisals, convicted DC sniper Lee Boyd Malvo asked a Wise County judge to legally change his name. The judge refused Friday, saying a circuit court name-change order would be futile. Malvo, along with his mentor John Muhammad, terrorized the Washington area in 2002 with a series of sniper attacks that killed [...]

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