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A Clifton Forge woman who claimed that her bunionectomy led to permanent, disabling pain and the amputation of her toes won a $3.5 million verdict from a Roanoke jury on Friday. With the cap on medical malpractice damages, the award ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

Roanoke Bar Association president George “Al” McLean gives a measured response to the recent comment by Roanoke state Senator Ralph Smith that lawyers have too much influence in the judicial selection process. McLean’s comments appear in a Sunday op-ed piece ...

Tagged with: Judgeships

A Bedford County jury verdict last month dramatically illustrates the recent downturn in the real estate market and the potential consequences for unwary real estate purchasers. The sellers of a high-priced home (pictured above) in a new Forest-area subdivision won ...

Constitutional law scholar and legal ethics expert Ronald D. Rotunda will leave Northern Virginia’s George Mason University School of Law after going public with a spat between his wife and another GMU professor. In pulling up stakes in Fairfax this ...

Challenging the government is not working out very well for Robert Steinburg. In 2005, he was tossed out of a Chesterfield County Planning Commission meeting and charged with disorderly conduct after a heated exchange with a commission member. His civil ...

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

Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell says that he will appeal the 2-to-1 ruling by a 4th U.S. Court of Appeals panel that Virginia’s ban on so-called “partial-birth” abortions is unconstitutional. According to the report from the Daily Press (via AP), ...

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

Bedford County Attorney Carl Boggess opines that the county is free to develop recreational facilities on a plot of land deeded in 1832 “to erect a poorhouse and work house forever.” As reported by the Roanoke Times, Boggess concludes that ...

Tagged with: Land Use & Zoning Real Estate

As reported by the Washington Times, we should get a ruling in about a month after yesterday’s hearing on the constitutionality of the Virginia law that impacts the ownership of land controlled by breakaway Episcopal churches. Meanwhile, the Hartford [Conn.] ...

Of the late Mr. Gouldman, the Free Lance-Star writes, “One of his most cherished accomplishments was his participation in successfully lobbying the [William & Mary] Board of Visitors against the proposed closing of the School of Law in 1939.”

A federal affidavit accuses Woodbridge lawyer Stephen J. Conrad of bilking between 200 and 300 of his clients, pocketing at least $3.4 million in settlements, according to Inside Northern Virginia.

Tagged with: Clients' Protection Fund Criminal Fraud