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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 ...

Dear Editor: Last month, I and my fellow new admittees to the Virginia State Bar were sworn in before members of the Supreme Court in Richmond. The Chief Justice welcomed us to the legal profession with persuasive admonishments to maintain ...

Dear Editor: I am writing in reference to your recent article, “Judge-Shopping, Or Just Doing Their Job.” I am a former Virginia prosecutor (Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney, City of Alexandria, 2001-2003) and currently a law professor in Texas. The lawyers in ...

Dear Editor: In the early 1960s, seminars, symposiums and serious informal discussions were held between the American Bar Association and representatives of the electronic and print media, on the subject of fair trial-free press. Television was in its infancy. In ...