Senior U.S. District Judge Robert E. Payne is the recipient of the 2023 Harry L. Carrico Professionalism Award from the Virginia State Bar Section on Criminal Law. Payne received the award at the 53rd Annual Criminal Law Seminar on Feb. ...
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A Greene County circuit judge awarded more than $13,000 in appellate attorneys’ fees in a long-standing dispute after finding the appellees were the prevailing party in the Supreme Court of Virginia appeal. In a case of first impression, Greene County ...
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Read More »The Virginia Bar Association Young Lawyers Division recognized a pair of young lawyers earlier this year at the VBA Annual Meeting in Williamsburg. Richmond attorney Jennifer L. Ligon received the Sandra P. Thompson Award while Ann Petros, vice president of ...
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A deaf man who sued a hospital after it failed to provide him with an interpreter during his wife’s childbirth had his disability discrimination lawsuit reinstated by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Fourth Circuit reversed the decision ...
Read More »The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission has announced a new director of the Virginia Victims Fund. The VWC named Shannon Dion as the fund’s new director in a press release earlier this month. Dion joined the fund after previously serving as ...
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A former investigator with a university’s office of equity and compliance saw her Title VII claim against the university dismissed by a federal court. The woman said the university retaliated against her after she claimed the school allegedly discriminated against ...
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Read More »The Virginia Bar Association installed Leesburg attorney Benjamin D. Leigh as the association’s new president on Jan. 21, according to a release from the VBA. Leigh will serve as the association’s 135th president and succeeds Roanoke attorney Victor O. Cardwell ...
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The Supreme Court of Virginia certified a pending judicial vacancy in the Eighth Judicial Circuit, stating the vacancy “should be filled in the manner prescribed by law.” The high court announced the certification on Jan. 12 in a letter to ...
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A deaf man who sued a hospital after it failed to provide him with an interpreter during his wife’s childbirth had his disability discrimination lawsuit reinstated by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Fourth Circuit reversed the decision ...
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Read More »Washington and Lee University School of Law Dean and Professor Melanie D. Wilson has been chosen as the 2023 president-elect of the Association of American Law Schools, or AALS. The AALS announced that its house of representatives voted to accept ...
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