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Washington attorney Allison Jones Rushing has been nominated by President Donald Trump to serve on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A native North Carolinian, Rushing is a partner with Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington and is licensed ...

A 36-year-old Richmond lawyer – working out of a county-seat office in the Piedmont hills – is doing network interviews and accepting congratulations from big-time tort lawyers for a stunning $289 million product liability verdict this month in a California ...

Tagged with: Products Liability

A Winchester lawyer has been charged with misdemeanor sexual battery in connection with a July 21 incident with a client. Howard J. Manheimer, 48, is accused of the unwanted touching of a 24-year-old woman at a school basketball court, The ...

A man who says he spent more than two years behind bars for a crime that never occurred cannot sue the prosecutor’s office that persisted with the case, an appeals court confirms. A judge’s ruling that sovereign immunity protects Charlottesville ...

Even if a litigious gadfly under police scrutiny gave the finger to a sheriff’s lieutenant, the lieutenant was not justified in stopping the car the man was in, according to a federal judge. A traffic stop merely for “gigging” an ...

Tagged with: Judge Jackson L. Kiser U.S. District Court - Western District

The Virginia State Bar paid $103,130.58 in the past fiscal year to 27 clients who lost money to dishonest lawyers, according to a year-end report from the Clients’ Protection Fund Board. It’s the lowest annual total in 11 years, according ...

A “husband” whose nine-year marriage was negated because the couple’s Washington wedding was at odds with their Virginia paperwork cannot save the union by labeling it a common law marriage under D.C. law. The Court of Appeals of Virginia ruled ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Randy I. Bellows Judge Rosemarie Annunziata Virginia Court of Appeals

Smyth County Commonwealth’s Attorney Roy F. Evans is the new president of the Virginia Association of Commonwealth’s Attorneys. Evans was inducted at the group’s 79th Annual Meeting in Virginia Beach. He succeeds Greensville County Commonwealth’s Attorney Patricia T. Watson. Other ...

Despite opposition from about a dozen participating lawyers, leaders of the oversight panel for the Virginia Lawyer Referral Service say they plan to move ahead with a proposal to charge a percentage of lawyers’ fees on referred cases. Some lawyers ...

Tagged with: Lawyer Referrals Virginia State Bar News

Judges who first rejected a mere reprimand for a lawyer who undermined subrogation rights in settlement of a UIM claim have approved a 60-day suspension in a second Virginia State Bar discipline hearing. In addition to the 60-day suspension, Fairfax ...