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The intersection of medicine and law extends beyond cases of medical malpractice, despite what some lawyers may think. To state the obvious, every lawyer at some point has been a patient. Conversely, every physician’s practice is regulated by the law. ...

Tagged with: General Assembly Medical Society of Virginia

An employee cannot break the law in order to collect evidence in support of a workplace discrimination lawsuit, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. Judge Diana Motz, writing for a unanimous panel, said that for an employee’s ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Discrimination Employment Law Judge Diana Gribbon Motz

A Virginia attorney representing a victim of human trafficking earned her client an $8 million judgment in Kansas earlier this year, which is believed to be the largest single-plaintiff human trafficking award in United States history. Collecting the award, however, ...

An African-American defendant who was convicted of drug and firearm charges may not interview the convicting jurors for signs of racial animus, despite a juror’s statement that his peer expressed racial prejudice during deliberations, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

A workplace discrimination lawsuit made by an openly gay female former deputy chief of the Bedford Police can go forward, a Lynchburg federal judge has ruled, finding that the claim was based on her sex, making a member of a ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

Just a few short months after walking 2,190 miles on a footpath from Georgia to Maine, Bruce Matson is back in the office in a high-rise in Richmond, handling bankruptcy cases for LeClairRyan, where he’s a partner. But that’s not ...

Tagged with: Appalachian Trail Bruce Matson

A federal judge in Harrisonburg has ruled that a Virginia-based drone company could seek to enforce a nonsolicitation agreement and entered an injunction against an ex-employee. But the enforcement effort was stayed after the man filed for bankruptcy in Maryland ...

Tagged with: Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

As baby boomers age, it’s no surprise that America’s population of people over the age of 65 is getting bigger than it has ever been. One less than obvious consequence of this is that more people living past middle age ...

Tagged with: Elder Law Family Law

The job market for Virginia law school graduates improved modestly from 2016 to 2017, based on an analysis of data published by the American Bar Association and the National Association for Law Placement. While statistics for the class of 2018 ...

Each year, more and more cases in Virginia are resolved through alternative dispute resolution. But, according to an annual report published Sept. 13 by the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission, this number is going up particularly quickly in workers’ compensation cases. ...