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A disbarred lawyer who stole from her church to reimburse a personal injury client has failed to persuade the Supreme Court of Virginia to allow her to practice again. The justices denied a petition for reinstatement by Anne Marston Lynch ...

A former Tysons Corner law firm partner has agreed to a two-and-a-half-year license suspension, admitting he lied about uncompleted work on collections cases over a period of more than two years. When he admitted his lapses and his lies in ...

President Trump has announced his intent to nominate Richmond lawyer Robert J. Grey Jr. for another term on the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation. The nomination is for the remainder of a three-year term expiring in 2020, ...

Anticipated full funding of all authorized judgeships is good news, but Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons says other offices at Virginia courthouses remain shorthanded. Lemons provided a supplement to the annual State of the Judiciary address in ...

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Law enforcement officers who forced two family members out of their Patrick County home after a foreclosure auction and blocked them from retrieving personal property face a jury trial on conversion and civil rights claims, a Danville federal judge has ...

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A Louisa County prosecutor is accusing Richmond’s Joe Morrissey of possible witness tampering in connection with a murder case. Morrissey represents Clifford Wood, a man accused in the fatal shooting of another last year at a home in the Montpelier ...

A Bluefield, Virginia, woman has been charged with stealing about $2.4 million in what the prosecutor thinks is the largest indictment ever handed down in Virginia. Teresa Barringer is accused of writing herself checks from the company where she worked. ...

Gov. Ralph Northam has granted an absolute pardon erasing the conviction of a Franklin County woman for discarding the remains of a stillborn fetus. The case, little noticed at first, became a lightning rod in the abortion rights debate after ...

Couples often split because they can’t work things out, but – when children are involved – the parties continue to be connected even after the relationship ends. Separation or divorce creates a whole new host of issues requiring cooperation and agreement between the parties. And, if ...

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A Glen Allen attorney has been arrested and charged with felony embezzlement after a client complained about undisclosed support payments collected by the lawyer. The lawyer now faces both a criminal hearing and an expedited bar discipline proceeding, according to ...