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David Neumeyer, executive director of the Virginia Legal Aid Society, will run for the top leadership slot at the Virginia State Bar. Neumeyer, of Lynchburg, has filed to run for VSB president-elect next year. His petition, with the requisite 50 ...

A Richmond federal judge has lamented a “cottage industry” of unregulated and unlicensed advocates allowed to represent parents in legal battles with school systems over special education services. Sanctioning a Richmond advocate for false statements in court, U.S. District Judge ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert E. Payne Lay Advocates

A Fairfax attorney has been convicted by a federal jury of conspiring with his wife to raid $653,000 from the campaign bank account of state Sen. Richard Saslaw. Besides the Saslaw scheme, David H. Miller, 70, also conspired to defraud ...

Tagged with: Lawyer Discipline

A lawyer who filed phony divorce documents in Henrico County Circuit Court has pleaded guilty to forgery of a public document and has had his license suspended. Jorge A. Ortiz allegedly told a client that the client’s divorce was accomplished ...

Tagged with: Lawyer Discipline

ROANOKE – When it comes to writing an appellate brief, knowing your audience may be just as important as knowing the facts and the law. A career law clerk with the Supreme Court of Virginia recently offered that and other ...

Tagged with: Appeals

Reston attorney Jay B. Myerson is the president-elect designate of the Virginia State Bar. Myerson was unopposed as the Oct. 1 deadline passed for VSB members to apply for the president-elect position for the 2020-21 bar year. Under bar rules, ...

Tagged with: Virginia State Bar News

A Culpeper motorcycle dealership that thumbed its nose at bankruptcy law has been hit with a $42,947.37 judgment. Using a bankruptcy notice as a trigger for repossession and then stonewalling the bankruptcy court could prove costly for the small business. ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge Rebecca B. Connelly Repossession

A Richmond lawyer has agreed to a second six-month license suspension for mishandling money. Neil O. Reid refused to pay a hospital lien after settling a personal injury case, later claiming he overlooked the original lien notice in his file, ...

Virginia’s U.S. senators say they will not release the names of new applicants for the seat of U.S. District Judge Glen E. Conrad. The senators announced a new round of applications Sept. 18 for the seat of the semi-retired Conrad ...

Virginia insurance regulators say the immigration bond surety company known as Libre by Nexus Inc. is violating the law by acting as an unlicensed insurance agent. The State Corporation Commission’s Bureau of Insurance says the company solicits, negotiates and sells ...