July 6, 2020
Comments Off on ‘A new day for employees’: New laws likely to prompt more litigation in state court
Employment lawyers anticipate an increase in state litigation using new labor and employment laws that went into effect July 1. Seven major pieces of “employee-friendly” legislation were passed by the General Assembly this year, including new pregnancy discrimination laws and ...
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July 6, 2020
Comments Off on Writ lets man go right to the court of appeals
In a novel procedural maneuver, a husband’s lawyer took his challenge to a divorce court pendente lite order straight to the Court of Appeals of Virginia even though the circuit court divorce case still was pending. The husband scored only ...
Tagged with: Family Law Virginia Court of Appeals
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July 6, 2020
Comments Off on Dems plan criminal justice reforms in August
A special General Assembly session in August will be dominated by a Democratic criminal justice reform program still being fine-tuned by party leaders. The session – dates still undetermined – is expected to pick up where the regular 2020 Assembly ...
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July 6, 2020
Comments Off on Consultant’s report must be disclosed, judge rules
In the wake of a massive data breach at Capital One, a Virginia federal judge says class action plaintiffs can have access to a consultant’s analysis of the incident. The report is not protected by the attorney work product doctrine ...
Tagged with: Judge Anthony J. Trenga U.S. District Court - Eastern District
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June 29, 2020
Comments Off on Virginia is only state without appeal of right in every case
Another study is underway to consider whether to expand the Court of Appeals of Virginia to allow appeals in every case decided in the circuit courts, an idea endorsed by a Supreme Court panel in 2018. Virginia is the only ...
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June 29, 2020
Comments Off on Lawyers admit to extortion scheme
Two Virginia lawyers have pleaded guilty to orchestrating a massive attempted shakedown of a multinational chemical company in a scheme that would have profited the lawyers at the expense of their clients. The attorneys admitted they offered to protect a ...
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June 29, 2020
Comments Off on Richmond law firm recognizes local ‘heroes’
“We find our lives in spending them in the service of others.” That’s the motto that George Allen Sr., one of the founders of the Allen Law Firm, set for his firm. Since its beginning in 1910, the Richmond-based law ...
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June 29, 2020
Comments Off on Jury trial hiatus extended
Virginia’s jury trial moratorium continues. The Supreme Court of Virginia has extended its declaration of judicial emergency through July 19. Regardless of when any circuit court scheduling order was entered, “all civil and criminal jury trials are suspended and shall ...
Tagged with: Coronavirus Jury trials
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June 26, 2020
Comments Off on VSB president carries out agenda amid COVID-19
The outgoing president of the Virginia State Bar did not let the coronavirus pandemic derail her from carrying out the goals of her agenda. When she was sworn in last June, Marni Byrum, an employment lawyer in Alexandria, said her ...
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June 22, 2020
Comments Off on Open file goes statewide: Virginia criminal discovery reforms coming July 1
Virginia criminal lawyers will be playing with a new rulebook when long-awaited criminal discovery reforms take effect July 1. Both prosecutors and defense attorneys say the changes in practice will be significant, but how the pretrial routine will change is ...
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