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Lawyers who sign up for the newly launched Avvo Legal Services program risk violation of at least two Virginia legal ethics rules, according to a proposed legal ethics opinion up for comment at the Virginia State Bar. Avvo officials don’t ...

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A Norfolk federal judge has determined to hold most defendants in the civil rights lawsuit filed over the death of Jamycheal Mitchell, a mentally troubled inmate who died at the Hampton Roads Regional Jail in 2015. Charged with petty theft, ...

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Seven statewide bar associations in Virginia have jointly signaled their opposition to a Trump administration proposal to drop funding for legal aid programs. The Virginia State Bar, the Virginia Bar Association, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, the Virginia Association of ...

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. – A Virginia Supreme Court panel offered only marginal comfort last month for frustrated trial lawyers hoping to reverse a trend of unfavorable rulings in product liability cases. At the annual convention of the Virginia Trial ...

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A Roanoke federal judge will allow a probation officer to give testimony in a Warren County murder trial about information she received from a probationer. The ruling comes despite “well established” law that information in the hands of the federal ...

Bicycles may be old technology, but the people who ride them are often sporting some of the latest electronic devices. In the case of one injured cyclist, his two performance monitoring gadgets helped turn a rejected personal injury claim into ...

Tagged with: Loudoun County Circuit Court Personal Injury

A general district judge sued by a neighbor amid a bitter dispute over a sliver of land has settled the malicious prosecution claim for undisclosed terms. Botetourt County Judge William H. Cleaveland reached an agreement with neighbor Michael J. Vaughn ...

The University of Mary Washington and its basketball coach have agreed to pay $160,000 to settle claims of race and gender discrimination by a former student. Jasmine Orsted claimed that she was excluded from the school’s basketball team and unfairly ...

A fraudulent check for nearly half-a-million dollars received by a Virginia lawyer led to ethics trouble over a $320 filing fee. The lawyer nearly fell for one of those fake check scams that have tripped up other attorneys. He avoided ...

For the second time in two weeks, the Court of Appeals of Virginia has upheld disciplinary action by the Virginia Board of Medicine despite contrary rulings by circuit judges. The March 21 decision means license revocation for a physician who ...

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