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Gilmore’s CIT proposal should be taken seriously Dear Editor: I was a bit distressed by the flippancy in the May 5 “Hearsay” column regarding Attorney General Jim Gilmore’s serious proposal to appoint a cabinet-level Chief Information Technology Officer reporting to ...

Keith backed for VSB president-elect Dear Editor: The Virginia State Bar is indeed fortunate to have men of the caliber of John Keith and Ben DiMuro who are willing to make the sacrifices necessary to run and serve in the ...

Dear Editor: Ben DiMuro not only has the experience and credentials to effectively serve as President of the Virginia State Bar, he has the strong desire to make our bar better internally, and better perceived externally. I served on the ...

Dear Editor: I am officially, indefinitely on the picket line. I will not take another state court-appointed case until the politicians and appellate judges pay me a fair compensation for court-appointed criminal defense work. I am proud to be a ...

Dear Editor: The newspapers are filled with news of controversies in the General Assembly over reappointment of Virginia judges. What our representatives should be arguing over instead is submission of a constitutional amendment to scrap the entire term-appointed system in ...

Dear Editor: The Jan. 27, 1997, issue of Lawyers Weekly USA reported that the U.S. Sentencing Commission is proposing three possible guidelines in order for a sentencing judge to consider prior charges for which the defendant was acquitted. Apparently, the ...

Lawyer blasts VSB’s “regrets” to inmate Dear Editor: Recently I received a “Personal & Confidential” letter from the Virginia State Bar in regard to an inmate complaining that I had never sent him his file. The letter was signed by ...

Dear Editor: Thank you for your article in the Oct. 21, 1996 edition of Virginia Lawyers Weekly [“Court-appointed lawyers protest”]. I believe it was instrumental in influencing the Board of Directors of the Virginia College of Criminal Defense Attorneys in ...

Dear Editor: The case of resigned Circuit Court Judge Luther C. Edmonds has been the subject of several articles in the Norfolk newspaper, as well as one Oct. 7 in Virginia Lawyers Weekly. With no knowledge of the Edmonds case, ...

Dear Editor: Your Sept. 9, 1996 edition carried the letter from Steven Rosenfield of Charlottesville and his decision not to accept state court-appointed cases during the month of November. The reasons stated reflect many concerns which I have had for ...