The VLW Blog

Lawyers who asked the Supreme Court of Virginia to order a court clerk to process their court-appointed fee vouchers withdrew their petition for mandamus last week.
Matt Greene of Fairfax, one of the lawyers who claimed that more than $50,000 in fees were in arrears for work at the Fairfax County Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court, [...]

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A Northern Virginia law firm is asking the Supreme Court of Virginia to order the clerk of the Fairfax County Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court to process a backlog of fee vouchers for court appointed lawyers.    Mike Arif and Matt Greene say their firm is owed more than $73,000 for legal work for the indigent, [...]

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The judicial system appears to have escaped unscathed from the latest round of budget cuts announced today by Gov. Tim Kaine.
Kaine did not mention the court system in his remarks to the legislative money committees, and a quick check of the budget adjustments released at the time of the speech did not disclose any significant [...]

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The House of Delegates yesterday killed amendments from Gov. Tim Kaine that would have increased the pay of court-appointed lawyers in juvenile court.
Kaine had sought to shoehorn the increase through changes to House Bill 2361, which will permit a judge to waive the fee limits for court-appointed counsel in certain cases. While killing that [...]

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Gov. Tim Kaine wants the bill allowing judges to waive the fee caps on court-appointed pay to apply in all of Virginia’s trial-level courts.
Compensation for court-appointed lawyers in Virginia ranks dead last in the nation. House Bill 2361, passed by the 2007 General Assembly, could alleviate that problem, at least partially. The bill would [...]

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