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A homeowner’s insurance company paid its limits of $2.5 million to settle claims that a former professional football player severely injured his physician girlfriend in a 2015 domestic assault, the victim’s lawyers reported. The civil settlement was hammered out as ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Insurance

Although the newlywed parties had not consummated their marriage and one spouse was pursuing gender transition, the other spouse – who hoped for children – was not entitled to an annulment under Virginia law, a Fairfax Circuit judge has ruled. ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Fairfax Circuit Court Judge David A. Oblon

A law firm associate who collected fees from clients on the side has agreed to a 90-day suspension with terms that include two years’ probation and three years of unannounced inspections of her accounts. Danielle M.H. Lewis first worked as ...

Two Roanoke-area bar organizations have endorsed Roanoke County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Judge Leisa K. Ciaffone for an upcoming circuit court vacancy. The Salem/Roanoke County Bar Association recommended Ciaffone in voting Jan. 7. The Roanoke Bar Association added its endorsement after ...

The Supreme Court of Virginia has approved amendments to the ethics rule governing how lawyers protect other people’s money and property. The current rule uses terminology that sounds archaic and is out of step with the way terms are used ...

The Virginia State Bar is seeking comments on proposed rule amendments to create separate membership status for retired and disabled members and to require an email address of record for all members. The proposal would clarify requirements for membership classes ...

Although the 4th Circuit has not yet spoken on “constructive demotion” as a factor in a Title VII retaliation claim, a federal district judge in Roanoke has embraced the concept and allowed such a claim to go forward. U.S. District ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals News Judge Glen E. Conrad Title VII

A private school requirement that parents pay legal costs for both sides in court disputes was an “unconscionable” contract provision, the Supreme Court of Virginia has agreed. The court on Jan. 2 affirmed the ruling of a Fairfax County judge ...

Tagged with: Supreme Court of Virginia News

A legal ambiguity that loomed large in the Joe Morrissey disbarment appeal has been eliminated by the Supreme Court of Virginia. The court made it clear in a Jan. 9 rule amendment that three-judge panels deciding lawyer discipline cases are ...

A federal judge has dismissed politician Joe Morrissey’s lawsuit claiming a 2016 televised commentary about his bid for Richmond mayor was false, defamatory and insulting. U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson said the broadcast by reporter Mark Holmberg was political ...