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Dear Editor: Thank you for your excellent overview of fee dispute resolution programs. Through this partnership of the State Bar and local bar groups, lawyers are given an inexpensive and civilized alternative to the unsavory choices of suing clients for ...

Dear Editor: I wish to respond to Donald D. Litten’s letter in the Dec. 29 edition of Virginia Lawyers Weekly, concerning the proposed Rule 3.1 changes. I have the greatest respect for Mr. Litten’s opinions as well as his nearly ...

Dear Editor: I received recently a letter from the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board concerning the reinstatement application of an attorney. The receipt of the letter was dictated by my practice in the 20th Judicial Circuit. The letter asks my ...

Dear Editor: Well, it seems that we’re going to have a rule requiring disclosure of adverse “controlling legal authority” whether we like it or not. Perhaps we can now get direction as to how to word the bill for services ...

Dear Editor: As one of the lawyers who represented Karen VanWinkle in a case smirkily described in Nov. 24 “Hearsay” column [VanWinkle v. VEC, (VLW 097-7-722)], I have to say that I hardly recognized either Ms. VanWinkle or the history ...

Dear Editor: I am responding to John Levy’s letter [“Lawyers’ duty to system basis for mandatory pro bono,” Oct. 13, 1997]. My former professor presents a strong argument for the proposition that lawyers should perform pro bono public service. Professor ...

Dear Editor: Why do they pick on us lawyers? A Letter to the Editor you published [“Why do we need mandatory pro bono?” Sept. 29, 1997] posed a question which is basic to the pro bono debate. Why aren’t other ...

Dear Editor: When a voluntary gift by individuals becomes a “mandatory” requirement and is declared an “obligation” of the donor coupled with minimum gift levels or penalties in fees with the punishment of losing a license to practice law, this ...

Dear Editor: Based on the results of its recent fax poll, Virginia Lawyers Weekly suggests that Virginia lawyers already take their pro bono obligations seriously–even without a mandate from the General Assembly. Seventy-nine percent of the attorneys responding to the ...

Dear Editor: The article in your July 21, 1997, edition, “‘Voluntary’ Sentencing Rules Now the Standard,” missed the main point about Virginia’s Sentencing Guidelines, which is that they promote not “Truth in Sentencing,” but “Insanity in Sentencing.” Let us look ...