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The latest proposal to reform criminal discovery in Virginia is being put up for comment by the state Supreme Court. The court is asking for comments on proposed revisions to Rules 3A:11 and 3A:12 regarding criminal discovery. The court’s Feb. ...

A Richmond federal jury returned verdicts this month totaling $58.6 million for a door manufacturer that claimed it was getting unfairly squeezed by a supplier. The jury found that Oregon-based JELD-WEN violated both antitrust law and a supply contract when ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A former Virginia lawyer convicted of embezzling from her church to pay off a personal injury client faces an uphill battle in her petition for reinstatement. Anne Marston Lynch Wilber, formerly Anne Marston Lynch, is asking the Supreme Court of ...

A Virginia lawyer who sought to assure a fraud victim that his money was safe, even after the money was paid to outsiders, has been suspended from law practice for 14 months, according to the Virginia State Bar. Attorney William ...

A merger with a Texas law firm will expand the Richmond-based Hunton & Williams law firm to more than 1,000 attorneys and add new names to the firm’s title. Hunton & Williams LLP and Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP announced Wednesday ...

Some additional funded judgeships will likely emerge from the 2018 General Assembly, but politicians have not yet nailed down numbers or the locations where new judges might be added. The current budget pays for 407 judgeships out of 426 authorized ...

A federal defender in Washington has been named as the federal public defender for the Western District of Virginia. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals selected Juval O. Scott of Germantown, Maryland, to fill the chief defender’s job in ...

The U.S. Supreme Court in 2015, in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, gave full marriage rights to same-sex couples. This month, in two different courts in Virginia – the Court of Appeals and a Fairfax Circuit Court – jurists ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Stephen C. Shannon Virginia Court of Appeals

President Trump has nominated Roanoke attorney Thomas T. Cullen for U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia, according to the state’s two U.S. senators. Cullen was one of two candidates recommended to the White House by Sens. Mark R. Warner and ...

An insurance company that covered losses when the city of Buena Vista failed to make good on golf course bond payments has lost its bid for a judgment against the city in Lynchburg federal court. U.S. District Judge Norman K. ...

Tagged with: Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District