The VLW Blog

An indisposed lawyer and a questionable juror are the bases of the two issues that may be considered by the Court of Appeals of Virginia in the case of George Huguely V, the former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend. Huguely was found guilty of second degree murder and sentenced to [...]

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Two General Assembly members highlighted differences over Virginia’s method of selecting judges on a newspaper op-ed page Sunday. Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Hot Springs, and Del. Ben Cline, R-Lexington, disagreed on whether the current method – election by the Assembly – needs reform. Deeds urged more public input and a more objective review of the candidates’ [...]

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The Supreme Court of Virginia now says it will consider appeals from both sides of the Virginia Tech wrongful death trial. The court has agreed to hear an argument from the families of two victims of the 2007 shootings that – if they prevail on appeal – could allow recovery of more than $100,000 each. [...]

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There are celebrations and groans across the state as February bar examination takers learn of the results. Overall, more than 57 percent of those who sat for the exam on Feb. 26 and 27 passed. A total of 324 passed out of 564 total takers, according to W. Scott Street III, secretary-treasurer of the Virginia [...]

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Roanoke lawyer Patrick T. Fennell is among seven lawyers appointed to a plaintiffs’ steering committee for combined litigation against the bankrupt drug preparation facility blamed for a deadly nationwide meningitis outbreak. The multi-district litigation in a Massachusetts federal court is designed to process hundreds of claims of illness or death allegedly caused by a tainted [...]

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Chesterfield County Circuit Court Clerk Judy Worthington – while pressing for additional county support and threatening to cut services for the court – was blindsided last month as the county administrator announced the transfer of seven county-funded positions. The county is immediately removing those positions from under Worthington’s control and placing them with the judges [...]

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A former Virginia lawyer sentenced to nearly four years in prison for submitting phony documents in his federal fraud case has lost his appeal. Facing charges that he used an elderly client’s credit card for his own purposes, Bradley D. Wein allegedly created letters to make it appear his purchases were legitimate fee payments. A [...]

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The just-completed 2013 Legal Food Frenzy generated some lively and innovative activities at some Virginia law firms as they competed to see who could raise the most money and give the most food in the annual donation drive. Fairfax’s McCandlish & Lillard put lawyers and staffers in “jail” so other employees would have to come [...]

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Neither the plaintiff nor the defendant asked to try their case in the Old Dominion, but a Texas judge ruled Monday that a patent infringement fight belonged in Virginia because the patent inventor lives in Alexandria. The ruling appears to have come as a surprise to the lawyers involved in the case, reports Reuters. Magistrate [...]

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A federal judge is threatening to hold two Richmond attorneys in contempt after neither showed for a plea agreement hearing Wednesday in a cigarette trafficking case. David Paul Morgan and J. Thompson Cravens entered an appearance in the case on behalf of defendant Jayant Khare in December, according to court records. Neither Morgan nor Cravens [...]

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