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One of my memorable legal experiences was helping to sue a small-town psychic.  Imagine my surprise, a dozen years later, to learn that “Miss Stella” has become a well-known psychic scammer on both coasts. I hadn’t given “Miss Stella” a ...

Tagged with: Fraud

One of my memorable legal experiences was helping to sue a small-town psychic.  Imagine my surprise, a dozen years later, to learn that “Miss Stella” has become a well-known psychic scammer on both coasts. I hadn’t given “Miss Stella” a ...

Tagged with: Fraud

Call it the odd trio.  Three free speech advocacy groups that don’t always see eye-to-eye have found common ground to challenge Virginia’s ban on campaign apparel at the voting booth. A lawsuit challenging the campaign button ban was filed this ...

Tagged with: Elections

The skyrocket has landed. With a thud. Last year, Virginia Lawyers Weekly reported that salaries for new associates at Virginia law firms had “skyrocketed” with some firms upping their starting annual pay by as much as $35,000. It’s a different ...

The 2009 General Assembly will be asked to approve a study that could lay the groundwork for allowing accident victims to sue Virginia counties. Virginia counties long have been protected by the common law doctrine of sovereign immunity, which means ...

Arguing that Roanoke white supremacist William A. White belongs behind bars, a federal prosecutor today raised the suggestion that White posed a threat to President-elect Barack Obama.  In a Chicago courtroom across the street from the Obama presidential transition office, ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Let there be no doubt: an election recount is a legal event. As noted on the Democrat Central blog, there are no less than eight lawyers and judges involved in the recount of Tom Perriello’s apparent victory over incumbent Rep. ...

Tagged with: Elections

A second-year law student will be among the 13 Virginia electors when they gather in Richmond on Dec. 15 to formally vote Virginia for the Obama-Biden ticket.  As noted by the law school at the College of William & Mary, ...

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Williamsburg attorney Alvin P. Anderson died Friday, Nov. 28, at age 60. Mr. Anderson was a member of the executive committee at the law firm of Kaufman & Canoles, where chairman William R. Van Buren III said that he will ...

Williamsburg attorney Alvin P. Anderson died Friday, Nov. 28, at age 60. Mr. Anderson was a member of the executive committee at the law firm of Kaufman & Canoles, where chairman William R. Van Buren III said that he will ...