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A crowded field is competing for the open seat on the Court of Appeals of Virginia. The Virginia State Bar reported 16 candidates submitted paperwork to be considered as the VSB and other bar organizations conduct interviews Feb. 19. The ...

A former Northern Virginia corporate attorney has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for conspiring to defraud state Sen. Richard Saslaw’s campaign war chest as well as a Canadian business and a charity. David H. Miller, ...

A Norfolk lawyer who was found liable for more than $2.5 million for mishandling of a fiduciary account has given up his law license. Philip R. Farthing acknowledged a judge’s 2017 findings that he breached his fiduciary duties in managing ...

A trial judge has excised two of the claims in a medical malpractice action based on an alleged “bait and switch” tactic by a heart surgeon. A young patient claims the cardiologist told her and her parents that he would ...

Tagged with: Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Penney S. Azacarte Medical Fraud

At least six candidates have indicated they would like to be considered for a vacancy on the Court of Appeals of Virginia. Virginia bar groups have been asked by a state Senate leader to evaluate candidates, and an evaluation process ...

Tagged with: Judge Daniel E. Ortiz Judge David Bernhard Judge Jan Roltsch-Anoll Judge Steven C. McCallum Virginia Court of Appeals

A proposal to create a public defender office for Prince William County has won two favorable votes already at the General Assembly. The House Courts criminal laws subcommittee approved the bill Jan. 17 without opposition after advocates said it would ...

Despite questions about whether a defendant health care company ever received actual notice of a malpractice lawsuit, a judge has approved a $1 million default judgment. The judge said he was reassured of proper service since suit papers were delivered ...

Tagged with: Fairfax Circuit Court Judge David A. Oblon Malpractice

A name change and a political shift distinguish the 2020 versions of the General Assembly’s committees overseeing Virginia’s courts. The Senate voted Jan. 8 to change the name of what had been the Committee for Courts of Justice to the ...

Tagged with: General Assembly

A bid by gun rights activists to block a temporary Capitol Square weapons ban has foundered both in circuit court and in the Supreme Court of Virginia. Gov. Ralph Northam on Jan. 15 decreed that weapons of all kinds would ...

A proposal advancing at the General Assembly is designed to encourage guardians ad litem in family law cases to both meet with children they serve and meet court standards for their work. The measure would pay GALs for face-to-face contact ...