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The discovery that a former Richmond police officer may have lied to obtain search warrants for drug suspects has helped undo convictions for 11 criminal defendants. But one man who pleaded no contest in 2010 to marijuana possession with intent ...

Tagged with: Judge Bradley B. Cavedo Supreme Court of Virginia

A federal judge has approved a $1.1 million settlement for a student, now in his teens, who claimed he was repeatedly abused by the janitor at his elementary school in Russell County. After the suit survived two pretrial rulings, the ...

Tagged with: Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

Thinking of hauling a big poster to the Supreme Court of Virginia to help illustrate your arguments? How about the crumpled bumper undergirding your client’s trauma claim? Better get permission before bringing such demonstrative exhibits to oral arguments at the ...

Richmond lawyer Curtis M. Hairston Jr. is the new chair of the Character and Fitness Committee of the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners, replacing longtime leader Henry M. Sackett III of Lynchburg. Sackett resigned in September after serving as chair ...

A woman injured in a fall as she left a Richmond law firm has won a $60,000 jury verdict against the owner of the building in the city’s historic Shockoe Slip. Even though a judge blocked the plaintiff from use ...

Tagged with: Judge Bradley B. Cavedo Judge Clarence N. Jenkins Jr. Richmond Circuit Court

Telling a jury that doctors are responsible for all the consequences of their negligence, foreseen or not, is a misstatement of Virginia law, the Supreme Court of Virginia has found. Even though it comes in an unpublished order, the high ...

Tagged with: Justice D. Arthur Kelsey Supreme Court of Virginia

Roanoke attorney J. Rudy Austin has been selected as the 2018 recipient of the Roanoke Bar Association Frank W. “Bo” Rogers Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award. Austin, a retired partner at the Gentry Locke firm, will be formally presented with the award at ...

Virginia has 105 new lawyers as of April 13. The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners has announced results of the February Virginia Bar Examination showing 105 applicants passed the bar and met all other admission requirements and are now licensed ...

A Chesterfield County bankruptcy lawyer has been banished from bankruptcy court for six months for unruly behavior at the federal courthouse security station. Richard O. Gates – a veteran bankruptcy lawyer who has handled 9,170 cases since 1990 – was ...

A former Alexandria attorney who paid himself more than $1 million for work on a decedent’s estate gave up his license last month in the face of seven ethics charges, including accusations of a wrongful act, making a false statement ...

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