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Dear Editor: Challenges to the freedoms protected by the constitution sometimes come in seemingly small and insignificant appearing increments. It should amaze most Americans to discover that the Constitution of the Soviet Union (you remember the Soviet Union: the gulags, ...

Dear Editor, I have just seen a copy of Senate Bill 664, offered to the Senate Jan. 20, 2012, by its patron, Sen. Ralph K. Smith. The purpose of the bill is to amend and reenact §15.2-107.1 of the Virginia ...

Dear Editor: I write in support of the budget amendment introduced by Sen. Chap Petersen that will reestablish the Appellate Defender’s office. In 2009, the Appellate Defender’s office was shuttered, a victim of budget cuts. Now we have an opportunity ...

Dear Editor, My teeth clenched again yesterday as I read the digest of the opinion in Campbell v. Campbell, which appeared on Page 18 of your August 15 issue. Why is it that your writer refers to the parties in ...

Dear Editor: The July 11 article, “Mo’ Dough, No Pro Bono?”, is an unfortunate reflection on the value of pro bono legal services delivered by lawyers in the private bar in Virginia. We are the pro bono partners in eight ...

Dear Editor: I must initially state I am writing as a member of the bar of this state and not a government employee, as I am. The article, “Memo to judges: Be ready to discuss Hernandez,” in the May 16 ...

Tagged with: General Assembly Justice Cynthia D. Kinser

Dear Editor: I have read with interest and dismay your May 23 editorial entitled, “A trap hidden in plain sight.” I find it reprehensible that four delegates, who are members of the House Courts of Justice Committee, would go so ...

Dear Editor: Two articles about lawyer discipline in your May 9 issue stand in remarkable contrast to each other. In the first article (“Leesburg lawyer disbarred in Md. for forging papers”), you report that a lawyer tried to help a ...

Tagged with: Lawyer Discipline

Dear Editor: I think the Virginia State Bar has made a grave mistake in how it has handled Gov. McDonnell’s attempt to raid the VSB contingent fund. Instead, we should be embracing the Governor’s attempt to say that the VSB ...

Dear Editor: Thank you for your article on the decision of Northern Virginia judges to exercise more control over the appointment of guardians ad litem for minors, who have become “too cozy” with insurance companies in infant settlement cases (VLW, ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations