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A Newport News lawyer has lost his law license for three years after judges concluded he improperly spent most of his client’s share of a personal injury settlement. Charged with misconduct, lawyer Fred W. Young took the case to a ...

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A Virginia-licensed lawyer who served as corporate counsel for a Florida health care company agreed to give up his law license after his guilty plea in a Medicaid fraud investigation. Thaddeus M.S. Bereday admitted to making a false statement to ...

A hard-fought battle over the technicalities of getting married in Virginia has been resolved with a narrow judicial preference for the validity of marriage over formulaic procedure. The backyard wedding of Richard Levick and Deborah MacDougall in 2002 – with ...

Tagged with: Justice D. Arthur Kelsey Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr. Supreme Court of Virginia News

A lawyer for Bristol Juvenile and Domestic Relations Judge Kurt Pomrenke this month urged state Supreme Court justices to censure the judge, but not remove him from office, for admitted misconduct in connection with his wife’s legal troubles. Censure or ...

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An Augusta County-based business that facilitates bond for immigrant detainees by renting GPS ankle bracelets is suing a federal agency over what it calls “nefarious tactics” in an investigation. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a civil investigative demand to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) Rep. Bob Goodlatte, who leads the House Judiciary Committee, announced Thursday he will retire at the end of his 13th term, becoming the latest GOP chairman not to seek re-election even though Republicans control all levers of power ...

The Supreme Court of Virginia has approved distribution of a decedent’s half-million-dollar estate based on a determination by a commissioner of accounts acting without referral from a circuit court judge. The decision stops short of confirming the authority of commissioners ...

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Dramatic gains by Democrats in elections for the Virginia House of Delegates may result in a net loss in the number of attorneys in the House. Two incumbent lawyer-legislators appear to have been defeated in House elections Tuesday, with only ...

A Richmond businessman who said he was jumped and beaten by two men in a 2014 incident managed to shoot both of his assailants and then sued the one that survived. The gun-wielding assault victim won a $95,000 verdict from ...

Tagged with: Judge Tracy Thorne-Begland Richmond Circuit Court

Virginia voters largely returned elected prosecutors to office in contested elections Tuesday. Despite jabs from established political figures in Portsmouth, incumbent Commonwealth’s Attorney Stephanie Morales was elected to a full term in office, The Virginian-Pilot reported. She defeated T.J. Wright ...