The VLW Blog

With many government offices closed in the wake of the storm, including administrative offices of the Supreme Court of Virginia, the court nevertheless is in session and will be hearing its schedule of oral arguments today (Tuesday). The essential personnel required to support the court session should report as planned, the court advised on its [...]

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Sandy has put a crimp in Virginia’s Judicial System. The  administrative offices of the Supreme Court of Virginia are closed today, “due to inclement weather.” Virginia State Bar offices also are closed. However, the Virginia State Bar Admission Ceremony will take place as scheduled, the court reports in a note on its website. “Essential personnel [...]

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Lucia Anna “Pia” Trigiani, a prominent Northern Virginia real estate lawyer and past president of the Virginia Bar Association, was named “Leader of the Year” by the 2012 class of “Leaders in the Law.” Last night, Virginia Lawyers Weekly held its seventh annual “Leaders in the Law” awards reception at the Science Museum of Virginia. [...]

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Chronic tardiness is not the way to win points with a judge. After a recent showdown in a federal court in South Carolina, the court and the offending litigant each came away with an appellate win. The plaintiff, who repeatedly showed up late to court and then cursed a judge after she left the courtroom, [...]

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A letter signed by 59 former judges, former prosecutors, lawyers and law professors asks the judge in the revived Justin Wolfe capital murder case to remove Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh as special prosecutor. Defense lawyers for Wolfe claim Morrogh is too cozy with Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul Ebert. They argue Ebert, [...]

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Whatever Virginians may have in common with North Carolinians, there has never been anything close to familiarity in the style of preferred barbecue sauces. North Carolina barbecue joints (Would you really want barbecue from anything more pretentious than a “joint”?) offer smoked pork with a thin, tangy, vinegar-based sauce. Most Virginians insist on a thick, [...]

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Richmond lawyer Thomas W. Bruno is this year’s Benjamin Rice Lacy IV Volunteer Attorney of the Year for the Greater Richmond Bar Foundation’s Pro Bono Clearinghouse. Bruno, who received the award Oct. 23 in a program at the Virginia War Memorial, has been recognized for providing pro bono legal services to Family Healing Place for [...]

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Vienna’s Dennis J. Quinn, a past president of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys, will fill an unexpired Fairfax County vacancy on the Virginia State Bar council, VSB executive director Karen Gould announced Monday. Quinn was the only person who filed a candidate petition by the advertised Friday deadline, Gould said. With only the one [...]

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Following angry reactions prompted by examination of the rules for “waived in” lawyers, the Supreme Court of Virginia is proposing to drop its full-time practice requirement. The change would affect lawyers who were licensed in other states and then admitted to the bar in Virginia by reciprocity, without taking the Virginia bar exam. Many of [...]

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A Salem man who claims headaches, neck ache and slurred speech from fungal meningitis caused by a contaminated steroid injection is the first to file suit in Virginia against a Massachusetts pharmacy that allegedly prepared the injection. Basil Proffitt was injected with the steroid Sept. 12 at a Roanoke imaging center, according to his lawsuit. [...]

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