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Virginia insurance regulators say the immigration bond surety company known as Libre by Nexus Inc. is violating the law by acting as an unlicensed insurance agent. The State Corporation Commission’s Bureau of Insurance says the company solicits, negotiates and sells ...

Virginia could put teeth into a rule that urges lawyers to make plans for their eventual inability to practice. Lawyers in some states, including South Carolina and Florida, are required to designate a successor attorney to take charge of client ...

Tagged with: Succession Planning Virginia State Bar News

An Alexandria federal judge handed down a two-year sentence for a man convicted of defrauding accident victims by posing as a personal injury attorney. Tuan Duc Nguyen, 55, of California targeted members of immigrant communities in Northern Virginia and elsewhere, ...

A Roanoke federal judge said he is joining the “growing number of courts” rejecting a heightened pleading standard for affirmative defenses in civil litigation. Plaintiffs chafing at the higher pleading hurdle imposed by Supreme Court opinions a decade ago argued ...

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

An understaffed clerk’s office in fast-growing Prince William County may have created a perfect storm for lawyers and others who had to navigate that courthouse in recent years. Multiple complaints about delays, errors and unhelpful staff suggest what can happen ...

Tagged with: Prince William County General District Court

A Roanoke lawyer is fighting a ruling that he cheated families of his deceased former law partners out of their shares of a once-forgotten stock certificate. A trial judge imposed compensatory and punitive damages against G. Nelson Mackey that – ...

Tagged with: Conversion Judge Humes J. Franklin Jr.

A Virginia law firm has filed a $75 million lawsuit against retailer Target Corp. and other businesses that reportedly handled a peanut butter substitute that sickened 32 people in 2017. The manufacturers of the “I.M. Healthy” brand of soy nut ...

A man whose hand was mutilated in a Smith Mountain Lake boating accident last summer has sued the makers of an outboard motor. The boat motor broke off its mount when it struck a submerged object, according to a report ...

The Virginia State Bar’s protection program for victims of dishonest lawyers hopes to close a possible loophole for clients of lawyers who change their status to disabled or retired. The VSB Clients’ Protection Fund reimburses those who suffer loss because ...

A new ruling by a Fairfax circuit judge has caused a circuit split on an arcane-sounding but important procedural technique – a motion craving oyer. Such a motion is formally a demand that a party produce relevant documents. The issue ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Daniel E. Ortiz Judge David A. Oblon