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Shenandoah County lawyer and substitute judge James H. Allamong Jr. has been arrested after authorities found marijuana plants growing on his property. The plants were discovered while firefighters were responding to a nearby shed fire, according to the Northern Virginia Daily. The marijuana is believed to have a street value of more than $150,000. Allamong [...]

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Claims handlers take note: Juries have grown generous for personal injury plaintiffs in Campbell County. The county has seen six straight plaintiffs’ verdicts, Circuit Judge John T. Cook told the Lynchburg Bar Association Wednesday. The total of the verdicts was $2.2 million, he said. That’s an average of more than $366,000 per claim. Asked if [...]

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Sharon Nelson, a Fairfax lawyer and president of a computer forensics and information security company, will be the Virginia State Bar’s new president-elect. Nelson filed her petition for the post at the VSB’s annual meeting in Virginia Beach this past June. As of the Oct. 1 deadline, no opponents had stepped forward. Nelson will be [...]

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A self-proclaimed Virginia Code “fan boy,” Waldo Jaquith wants to bring the Code to the masses with his “Virginia Decoded” project. Jaquith, whose five-year-old website “Richmond Sunlight” focuses on the sausage-making at the General Assembly, says he will showcase the finished product in his new project. Jaquith wants to make the Virginia Code more user-friendly, [...]

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A Newport News judge has set aside a multimillion dollar personal injury award on the grounds the verdict was excessive. This past August, a jury awarded $5,225,000 to Michael Chavis, who was injured after a forklift ran over his foot at a Best Buy store. Chavis was diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome as a [...]

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A Washington lawyer who formerly served as a special assistant to the president at the White House reportedly spent the night in jail while visiting Williamsburg last month. The Virginia Gazette reports Laura L. Flippin was charged with public intoxication and locked up overnight Sept. 23 while in Williamsburg for a meeting of the College [...]

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Virginia Bar Association President Lucia Anna “Pia” Trigiani (right) has been named to the Hall of Fame of the Italian American Business and Professional Societa. The Societa is a Richmond business group dedicated to promoting relationships between Italian American-owned or related businesses and other companies. Every five years the organization acknowledges the outstanding contributions made [...]

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