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What makes so many lawyers unfulfilled, unhappy or – worse – impaired? A new report from a special Virginia State Bar committee points to factors underlying the legal profession’s wellness problem and offers practice pointers to help. The report is ...

Tagged with: Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons Health & Wellness

Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael N. Herring says he plans to resign that post on July 1. He will join McGuireWoods as a partner, he confirmed. “At least in the beginning, I will focus my energy on commercial litigation and white ...

The Supreme Court of Virginia has upheld a bar reprimand of a Virginia Beach lawyer accused of misleading a judge about terms of a federal regulation. Attorney Judith M. Cofield fought the bar discipline all the way to the high ...

Amid criminal and civil investigations of how public money was used by a Front Royal-based economic development agency, a former county sheriff has died and the former head of the agency was denied bond. Former Warren County Sheriff Daniel McEathron ...

Even though Virginia’s chief justice has questions about the practice, lawyers and judges say having different judges handle various aspects of a case is a system that works in busy courthouses. The subject came up at a May 8 meeting ...

Tagged with: Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons Motions

Two parallel initiatives in the Virginia court system are designed to deal with two different groups of pro se litigants. The Supreme Court of Virginia wants to help those who cannot afford a lawyer, but who seek relief in the ...

A federal appeals court will be asked to consider the limits of a federal law that criminalizes inciting a riot in a case arising from the 2017 Charlottesville rally. Before three members of a white supremacist group pleaded guilty this ...

A Manassas lawyer’s fast ways with money cost him a license suspension of a year and a day after his partner turned him into the Virginia State Bar. A panel of the VSB Disciplinary Board found that James S. Del ...

A Virginia prosecutor has agreed to a Virginia State Bar reprimand for listening to a recording of a phone call between a lawyer and his jailed client. The call was recorded because the lawyer had not registered his phone number ...

In a case of a two-pronged payback, a man who shot a pair of road-rage assailants and then sued the one who survived may have to try his damages case again in Richmond Circuit Court. Four justices of the Supreme ...

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