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Dear Editor: Rule 8.2 of the Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct provides: Judicial Officials. — A lawyer shall not make a statement that the lawyer knows to be false or with reckless disregard as to its truth or falsity concerning ...

Dear Editor: I write to oppose the proposed elimination of the distinction between law and equity in Virginia civil practice. Throughout Virginia’s history, our Supreme Court has emphasized the distinction between law and equity. In 1882 the Virginia Supreme Court ...

Dear Editor: Recently your paper carried an article dealing with current litigation in Wise County between Client Centered Legal Services of Southwest Virginia and the Legal Services Corporation of Virginia (“Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Over Funding for Legal Aid,” VLW, Aug. ...

Dear Editor: Your well-intentioned piece on lawyer marketing through the use of first-class letters (“Letters Seize Attention, Generate Interaction,” VLW, July 26) may inadvertently cause some lawyers to run afoul of the disciplinary rules on lawyer advertising. For instance, first-class ...

Dear Editor: I am ashamed to practice law in the 4th Circuit. I am one of many court-appointed lawyers who represents people on Virginia’s death row. When appointed by the district court, counsel’s duties begin immediately because there are time ...

Dear Editor: I don’t recall ever writing a “Letter to the Editor” before, but, as an attorney who has been in private practice in Virginia for more than 38 years and as one whose roots in Virginia predate the Civil ...

Dear Editor: I am writing in response to an article entitled “Conflicting Testimony on DUI Practice Nets Acquittal” published in the March 1, 2004 issue of Virginia Lawyers Weekly. I would like to add that in my testimony concerning repeated ...

Dear Editor: I recently received the following directive from a client. He instructed me to squash an emotional discovery because the witness had a scrunge on him and because the witness had violated the judge’s no shacking order. My interpretation ...

Dear Editor: Virginia’s criminal defense bar by now should know better than to hope for the General Assembly to significantly increase the court-appointed fee schedule (“New Report Faults State’s Indigent Defense,” Feb. 9, 2004). What remains inexplicable is the Virginia ...

Dear Editor: With greater attention being focused on the work ethic of General District Court judges, I thought there might be some interest in a recent event in Fairfax. On Friday afternoon, Jan. 23, the clerk’s office failed to notify ...