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Arbitrators who awarded nearly $300,000 in back pay and compensation for gender discrimination to a former partner at LeClairRyan have denied the firm’s bid to keep their findings confidential. After the three-member arbitration panel decided in favor of attorney Michele ...

A Northern Virginia oncologist and her practice group were hit with a rare verdict in excess of $20 million this summer. A Fairfax County jury concluded the oncologist had missed signs of a growing tumor in the chest of a ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Medical Malpractice

The Richmond-based firm of Hirschler Fleischer says you can call it by its first name. The firm, with 74 lawyers, announced its rebrand as simply “Hirschler” on Oct. 29. The reveal of the one-word trade name was accompanied by roll-out ...

A Halifax lawyer and 14-year member of the Halifax County Board of Supervisors has been suspended from law practice for two years for impugning the integrity of local judges as he mishandled a wrongful death case. A three-judge circuit court ...

Tagged with: Lawyer Discipline Virginia State Bar News

With a deep dive into Virginia civil procedure precedents, a Fairfax judge had both good and bad news for a plaintiff who sought a do-over after appealing to circuit court. The good news was that the plaintiff was entitled to ...

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

State Attorney General Mark R. Herring has joined calls for reforms to Virginia’s cash bail system, saying too many low-risk criminal defendants are locked up awaiting trial because they cannot afford to post a bond. Herring cited policy and constitutional ...

Despite a decline nationally in scores on the Multistate Bar Examination in July, Virginia bar candidates posted an increase in the state’s overall pass rate. Of the 767 test takers who sat for the two-day exam in Roanoke this summer, ...

An Alexandria federal judge has awarded $1.53 million in attorney’s fees and costs to a consumer electronics manufacturer based on findings that trademark infringement claims and litigation conduct against the company were “objectively unreasonable.” U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III ...

Tagged with: Judge T.S. Ellis III

A divided Supreme Court says Virginia will allow a lawsuit against a shipyard over the cancer death of a woman allegedly exposed to asbestos brought home by her shipworker father. The 4-3 decision on Oct. 11 “reshapes tort law” according ...

Tagged with: Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr.

A former Roanoke lawyer who admitted lying to FBI agents about accepting sex for legal services and providing drugs to clients has been sentenced to six months in prison. Scott A. Webber pleaded guilty to one count in June, admitting ...