The VLW Blog

A company that approached Rockingham Memorial Hospital with a plan to boost its Medicare reimbursements failed to prove a binding contract for a percentage of the increased revenues, a federal appeals court found last week. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Friday affirmed dismissal of the suit brought by McKay Consulting Inc. seeking court [...]

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A group of bondholders who got stiffed when a major German conference center project went bust have won a $96.4-million Alexandria federal jury verdict against a South Korean national who allegedly lied about backing for the bonds. The jury found former McLean businessman Man Ki Kim committed fraud when he promised to provide money for [...]

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A Roanoke federal court says an IT specialist who fell asleep on the job can sue for disability discrimination on a claim his employer did not accommodate his insomnia and sleep apnea. U.S. District Judge Samuel G. Wilson refused to dismiss John Leschinskey’s complaint against Radford University, filed after Radford fired the 39-year-old voice engineer [...]

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Virginia Lawyers Weekly has the names of the 1,156 successful candidates who sat for the Virginia bar examination in July 2011. The list includes a section for exam-takers who passed but are not being licensed at this time due to outstanding requirements. The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners reports that 1,513 applicants took the exam [...]

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Attitudes are changing about a law school education, a new survey suggests. Among students considering law school, only 68 percent said they would still apply if they understood the grim job prospects. Last year, the figure was 81 percent, reports Veritas Prep, a law school admissions consulting firm. Another finding of the Veritas survey — [...]

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Former U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell has gone to court to dispute an $18,250 bill from a Virginia attorney. Reston lawyer Jonathan Moseley has demanded $18,250 for work and expenses for the former Delaware Republican Senate candidate, according to the News Journal. O’Donnell filed a declaratory judgement complaint in Delaware court after Moseley threatened to [...]

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Here’s the scoop on the poop. The dog poop case in Fairfax, that is. In Fairfax yesterday, a woman charged with violating a county pooper-scooper ordinance was found not guilty by a jury after a day-long trial. Why did this case take a full day of court time and require the empanelling of a jury? [...]

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A husband with $3.5 million in assets still could afford the $2,100 in monthly spousal support he agreed to pay his former wife in their 2000 property settlement agreement, according to a Court of Appeals decision released today. It did not matter that the wife had left a law firm job after only a few [...]

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It may be just a tiff over dog poop left behind on a neighbor’s yard, but the case is going to a Fairfax County jury. Kimberly Zakrzewski stands accused of letting her four-legged friend, Baxter, leave his business behind at a condominium development. Zakrzewski claims it wasn’t her. According to The Washington Post, the jury [...]

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Justice Cleo Elaine Powell was invested earlier today as the 102nd justice and the first African-American woman to serve on the Supreme Court of Virginia. Powell, who first took the bench in the general district court of Chesterfield County and Colonial Heights 18 years ago, also joins the elite group of justices who have served [...]

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