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The “new normal” of practicing law remotely has its challenges. Zoom depositions are one of them.  Preparation is tedious. Computer screens notoriously freeze mid-sentence. And how about those lawyers who love using the limitations of virtual testimony to feed helpful ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia has rejected changes proposed by the Virginia State Bar to the Rules of Professional Conduct prohibiting a lawyer from having sexual relations with a current client. In a letter dated July 21, the court denied ...

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Virginia Court of Appeals Judge William G. Petty will retire later this year, which opened the eighth vacancy on the court that the General Assembly filled on Aug. 10. Petty’s retirement will be effective in November, according to the Richmond ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia is floating proposed new Canons of Judicial Conduct for public input and comment. Under the proposal, which streamlines the current canons, a judge may: Participate in social media, within restraint. Participate in community activities, to ...

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Despite allegations that a lawyer was using his cellphone for work when he struck a skateboarder with his car, a Richmond federal judge has dismissed his law firm from a personal injury action at the threshold of litigation. U.S. District ...

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A Michigan lawyer failed last month in her challenge to the requirement that she join the State Bar of Michigan and pay dues supporting advocacy activities with which she disagreed. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in Taylor v. ...

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The Great Resignation is coming. Unprecedented numbers of employees are expected to change jobs, and more than half of them will take confidential company information. Worse, 40 percent of them will use that information at their new job. Companies frequently ...

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Supreme Court Justice William C. Mims has notified the governor and legislative leaders that he will not seek reelection to the court next year when his term comes to an end on March 31. By letter this morning, the justice ...

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Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to introduce the third group of honorees in our program recognizing the leading lawyers in a particular field of law. The field of practice for these “Go To Lawyers” is workers’ compensation law. Profiles of ...

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A North Carolina-based attorney can work out of at a vacation home on Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia so long as he works only on cases involving North Carolina or federal law,  according to a proposed Legal Ethics Opinion from ...

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