Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

A Petersburg contracting company is in a court fight over insurance coverage after it lost more than $1 million to scammers who sent phony money-wiring instructions. Coverage could depend on whether the scammers were in Africa or in this country. ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A former police officer already found liable for false arrest faces additional exposure for civil rights violations based on injuries inflicted in a Petersburg traffic stop, under a Virginia Supreme Court ruling. A jury verdict on assault, battery and malicious ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Supreme Court of Virginia News

Two circuit judges have disallowed future court-appointed work in their circuit for a Chatham lawyer and advised district court judges in writing about their decision. Lawyer Gregory T. Casker moved to postpone a two-day murder trial Jan. 22 saying he ...

Lawyers who successfully blocked a plan to remove two Confederate statues from Charlottesville public spaces will be reimbursed more than $300,000 in fees from the city under a judge’s Jan. 21 ruling. Charlottesville Circuit Judge Richard E. Moore decided in ...

Three lawyers have expressed interest in a Lynchburg Circuit Court vacancy. The Lynchburg Bar Association reports Eugene M. Butler, Michael R. Doucette and James A. Downey Jr. have asked for support in their bids for the seat of now-retired Judge ...

Even though the seller of a used car failed to fill out odometer information when he turned over the title, the transfer of ownership was complete and the buyer could not look to the seller’s insurance policy after a devastating ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District

A circuit judge who sought to explain his low scores on performance surveys in December failed to overcome the misgivings of delegates at the General Assembly. While the state Senate on Jan. 27 approved a second term on the circuit ...

A crowded field is competing for the open seat on the Court of Appeals of Virginia. The Virginia State Bar reported 16 candidates submitted paperwork to be considered as the VSB and other bar organizations conduct interviews Feb. 19. The ...

A former Northern Virginia corporate attorney has been sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for conspiring to defraud state Sen. Richard Saslaw’s campaign war chest as well as a Canadian business and a charity. David H. Miller, ...

A Norfolk lawyer who was found liable for more than $2.5 million for mishandling of a fiduciary account has given up his law license. Philip R. Farthing acknowledged a judge’s 2017 findings that he breached his fiduciary duties in managing ...