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Eight Virginia bar groups are supporting a proposal to add training on elimination of bias in the legal profession to the list of topics approved for ethics credits in continuing legal education. “We, as a country, are coming to grips ...

Two Virginia lawyers who admitted trying to extort a potential mass tort defendant for $200 million at the expense of their cancer-victim clients have agreed to disbarment. One of the lawyers acknowledged a “long-time substance use disorder which had affected ...

A coalition of legal groups has launched a project to seek early release of Virginia inmates at risk of illness from COVID-19. Despite legislation and a settlement agreement to help the incarcerated population at risk from the pandemic, lawyers saw ...

Prompted by an outsider’s motion to show cause, a federal magistrate judge has ordered a company with offices in Augusta County to refile a group of exhibits with corrected redactions. Reviewing the exhibits filed in a business dispute, U.S. Magistrate ...

Another Virginia courthouse Confederate statue is on the way out. The Albemarle County supervisors voted unanimously Aug. 6 to remove the 111-year old “Johnny Reb” statue from in front of the county courthouse, located in downtown Charlottesville. The Charlottesville Albemarle ...

A lawyer who refunded her fee and reimbursed the client’s expenses after a bungled divorce filing had the client promise in writing to retract a bar complaint, according to an agreed disposition of ethics charges. The lawyer consented to a ...

A former Richmond lawyer who allegedly strung along a medical malpractice client for four years with falsified documents and more than $400,000 in payments has surrendered his bar license in the face of multiple ethics charges. D. Brooks Hundley disputed ...

Virginia’s public defenders are telling reform-minded Democrats the state needs more judges from the ranks of defense lawyers, more discretion for judges and fewer opportunities for pretextual police stops. Another target of reformers is mandatory minimum sentences for various offenses ...

Tagged with: Criminal

Faced with a deposition that was halted amid sharp objections to the scope of questioning, a Richmond federal judge ordered a second deposition and assessed fees against the opposing counsel. No sanctions were imposed, and the dispute over the questioning ...

A Richmond circuit judge says a group of Richmond landowners is likely to succeed on a claim that property law bars removal of the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Judge W. Reilly Marchant concluded that property owners in ...

Tagged with: Gov. Ralph Northam Judge W. Reilly Marchant Richmond Circuit Court