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NORFOLK — Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Cynthia D. Kinser shone a light on court staff in her 2012 State of the Judiciary address delivered May 15 in Norfolk. The chief justice opened Virginia’s annual Judicial Conference with a summation of achievements and milestones during the past year. Virginia’s 4,500 judicial branch employees handle over [...]

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Tazewell County Circuit Judge Teresa M. Chafin was elected to the Court of Appeals of Virginia in an early morning General Assembly session that left confusion and controversy about other judicial appointments. It appeared that the Assembly elected Fredericksburg lawyer Wesley G. Marshall to the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission, but the action could not be [...]

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A pro-family advocacy group has targeted a Richmond prosecutor up for a general district court judgeship in General Assembly judicial elections today. Deputy Richmond commonwealth’s attorney Tracy Thorne-Begland has a “long history of political activism,” claims The Family Foundation in a blog entry posted Friday. Thorne-Begland was discharged from the Navy 20 years ago after [...]

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Pounds added up in a good way in the 2012 Legal Food Frenzy competition, which concluded with yesterday’s announcement by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli of this year’s winners of the annual contest. The latest Food Frenzy raised 1.4 million pounds of food for Virginia food banks. Contestants are judged by weight and the prizes include [...]

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Deborah Love, Director of the Richmond Academy of Medicine and Access Now Inc., has been selected as Virginia Lawyers Media’s Influential Woman of the Year for 2012. Selected by a vote of the 44-member 2012 class of Influential Women of Virginia, Love’s signal achievement in recent years has been helping to develop Access Now Inc., [...]

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Gov. Bob McDonnell suggests a smaller slice of local fines and fees going to the state budget than a General Assembly proposal, but he also wants a comprehensive study of the traffic enforcement issue that has pitted local officials against state bureaucrats and legislators. At the heart of the dispute is local traffic court money, [...]

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Lawyers who represent consumers notched a win last week in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a case says they don’t have to hustle to court as fast as they thought. Homeowners facing foreclosure on refis have had some modest success with claims under the Truth in Lending Act. But there’s a three-year [...]

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A former Falls Church lawyer who admitted stealing from the assets of an elderly Arlington couple received a suspended four-year prison sentence last month. Erin Weber Anderson – now known as Erin Marie Weber – was ordered to repay more than $275,000 she was accused of taking while she served as guardian and conservator for [...]

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Keeping track of someone else’s federal litigation used to require sending someone to the courthouse every so often to see if anything had been filed. Nowadays, PACER allows monitoring of a case from your desktop. As if that were not easy enough, the clerk’s office at the Western District of Virginia has gone one better. [...]

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Every year on May 1, Law Day is celebrated throughout the nation. In Fairfax, Law Day means the annual Weiner Roast hosted by Weiner & Spivey PLC. Ed Weiner (left) has been the host with the roast for 12 years, raising funds to benefit the Fairfax Law Foundation. This year was the biggest and the [...]

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