The VLW Blog

I was walking down Main Street in Richmond one sunny lunchtime about a week ago. It was one of those Richmond-in-June days…humid, temp around 80, not bad but you know it’s going to get ugly before long.
Standing in line to get cart food were two guys in their mid to late 20s. Both were in [...]

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Talk about signs of the times. Here’s an item that has more strands of current stuff than you thought imaginable. Take the economy. Add law firms. Make that law firms that need to cut staff and/or lawyers. Add general paranoia about the above. Add the Web and the instant news cycle created by bloggers. What [...]

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On average, a female equity partner in a law firm earns $87,000 a year less than a male equity partner, according to figures released today by the National Association of Women Lawyers.
NAWL says its 3rd annual survey is the only national study of American Lawyer’s AmLaw 200, a survey of the nation’s 200 largest law [...]

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Del. Terrie L. Suit, R-Virginia Beach, will leave the House of Delegates next month to take a lobbying job with Richmond-based Williams Mullen, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Suit (right) will work with the government relations team, headed by former Attorney General Jerry Kilgore. Under state law, Suit won’t be able to lobby her ex-colleagues for a year, but [...]

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The Norfolk-based law firm of Taylor & Walker PC has started a voluntary four-day work week in its offices. The reason: It saves employees gas money.
Apparently companies across the country have been opting for a new four-day, 8-6 schedule; the program started in late June at the Taylor & Walker offices in both Norfolk and [...]

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