The VLW Blog

A 67-year-old family-owned mining business could be broken up and parceled out under a judge’s “drastic” remedy for the company’s oppression of minority shareholders. Fairfax County Circuit Judge Jane Marum Roush concluded the Disthene Group Inc. – which owns a profitable Kyanite mine in Buckingham County – is controlled by a domineering shareholder who is [...]

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Charlottesville Circuit Judge Edward Hogshire reduced only slightly a jury’s recommended sentence for the former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of second-degree murder in the 2010 beating death of his ex-girlfriend, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Hogshire imposed a 23-year sentence for the murder; the jury had chosen 25 years. A one year sentence [...]

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Travel to Washington has often been an issue for Virginia lawyers. It’s too close to fly, but driving poses unavoidable risks. You might get caught in one of those all-too-frequent traffic jams on I-95 and arrive hours late. Or you might take one of forty-three possible wrong turns in the Mixing Bowl and wind up [...]

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The entire Court of Appeals of Virginia has announced it will take another look at the issue of defective petitions for appeal. A three-judge court panel declared earlier this month that vague references to the record in assignments of error in petitions would be fatal – the appeals would be dismissed without an opportunity to [...]

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“Of counsel” has been showing up on law firm letterheads and websites for years, and the status can cover a variety of arrangements. A new advisory legal ethics opinion offers guidelines for one such arrangement, based on a hypothetical in which a sole practitioner with her own PLLC, who specializes in tax work, wants to [...]

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A drug company salesman claimed gender bias after his supervisor asked if the salesman’s wife could drop off their child at school, so the salesman could start work earlier. Noah Nathan said his employer, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, discriminated against him by questioning his child-care responsibilities. Nathan’s district sales manager wanted to enforce an 8:00 a.m. start [...]

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Washington, D.C. lawyers who won a pro bono voter records case can’t expect to recoup fees at D.C. rates, a Norfolk federal judge said last week. Lawyers from the D.C. office of Boston-based Ropes & Gray went to bat for Project Vote, who alleged that students at Norfolk State University had problems registering to vote [...]

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Seven years after agreeing to revocation of his law license amid allegations of misbehavior in and out of court, a former Richmond lawyer is asking to practice law again. Kenneth Dennis Sisk gave up his license in 2005 after being accused of making a court appearance in a criminal matter while his license was suspended. [...]

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A Winchester lawyer facing six complaints from the Virginia State Bar has agreed to a six-month suspension for a series of legal ethics violations, including disobeying a judge’s ruling and filing a pleading while he was under a prior suspension order. As part of an Aug. 17 agreement with the VSB, the bar dropped two [...]

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That smooth talking Lando Calrissian now has a law license, according to this comedy video. We assume he’s a Solo practitioner.

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