The Virginia State Bar’s Clients’ Protection Fund paid $127,061 in the 2021-2022 fiscal year on 28 claims by clients who lost money due to dishonest conduct by a Virginia lawyer, according to a release from the VSB. That number is ...
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Read More »When she was in law school, Jennifer Locke was first introduced to legal aid as an unpaid intern at a legal aid office in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. While working as an intern during the day, Locke worked a temp job on ...
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Gender dysphoria is a covered “disability” within the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in a case of first impression. The decision in Williams v. Kincaid (VLW 022-2-204) reverses the district ...
Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ADA Gender dysphoria Judge A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr.
Read More »Virginia Legal Aid Society is seeking public comment on a new strategic plan that seeks to guide the firm’s work in south-central Virginia for the next five years. “Our strategic plan is our road map,” VLAS Executive Director David Neumeyer ...
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Read More »Three Virginia law school professors and a Virginia federal judge have become members of the American Law Institute. The ALI announced that Aditya Bamzai of the University of Virginia School of Law, James Y. Stern and Lynda L. Butler of ...
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Read More »Three Virginia law school professors and a Virginia federal judge have become members of the American Law Institute.
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Read More »A Charlottesville Circuit Court jury handed down a $15 million verdict to the mother and sister of a former University of Virginia lacrosse player murdered by her boyfriend in 2010. The jury awarded the verdict in Love v. Huguely on ...
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The Court of Appeals of Virginia upheld a decision by a circuit court to grant a motion to suppress evidence filed by a man searched by police who claimed he could not validly consent to the search. The court ruled ...
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The United States Senate voted to confirm U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Hanes to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, filling a vacancy that has been open since last fall. Ten Republican senators voted along with the ...
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The Supreme Court of Virginia affirmed a lower court’s ruling concluding that a doctor who treated inmates in a Virginia correctional center was protected by derivative sovereign immunity. The state’s high court also granted the doctor’s demurrer to a gross ...
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