Best-selling author John Grisham will be the host of a fund-raiser for the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society and the Legal Aid Justice Center Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at Toad’s Place, 140 Virginia St.in Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom.Virginia First Lady Anne Holton, a former legal aid attorney and juvenile and district relations district court judge in
Richmond, [...]
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Grisham to boost legal aid
November 11th, 2008 · Comments Off · Legal Aid, Richmond
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City to finally move on Richmond courthouse
April 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off · Courthouse, Richmond
The Times-Dispatch has an article on its Web site about the much-delayed plan for getting the two criminal general district courtrooms out of the deteriorating Public Safety Building.
The plan now is to move them to a renovated Manchester Courthouse, with construction to begin in June and be completed in early 2010.
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Vick gets 23 months
December 10th, 2007 · Comments Off · Dogfighting, Michael Vick, Richmond
Michael Vick could play professional football in 2009, but he would have to shake off two years of rust and miss much of the pre-season training for whatever team is willing to accept bad publicity and uncertain performance.
U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson sentenced Vick today to 23 months in prison on a federal dogfighting [...]
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Naming the new Richmond courthouse, round two
November 28th, 2007 · Comments Off · Courthouses, Jim Webb, John Warner, Richmond
The idea of naming the new federal courthouse in downtown Richmond after Judges Spottswood W. Robinson III and Robert R. Merhige Jr. has been circulating for about two years, with a push from local bar groups.
Last October, Sens. John Warner and George Allen introduced legislation to secure the name, but it went nowhere.
Allen [...]
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Lawyer’s ex-secretary to plead guilty
October 31st, 2007 · Comments Off · Richmond, Secretary, identity theft
A lawyer’s former secretary, charged with stealing from a dead woman’s estate, is scheduled to plead guilty today under an agreement with federal prosecutors.
Shelia Mae Boone, who worked for Richmond lawyer Harvey Latney Jr., is charged with forging checks totaling more than $272,000, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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Consultant to advise on Richmond circuit dockets
April 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Circuit Courts, Richmond
A California court consulting firm will help Richmond Circuit Court judges develop a new case management system.
Chief Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell Sr. recently wrote Richmond Chief Judge Walter W. Stout III that he has selected Christopher Crawford of Justice Served for the work.
The Richmond circuit has been the only one in the state in which [...]
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