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Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to present the next group of honorees in our program recognizing the leading lawyers in a particular field of law. In this issue, we showcase “Virginia’s Go To Lawyers” for intellectual property law. The attorneys ...

A property insurer that refused to make advance payments after a devastating fire at a seafood processing plant and allegedly coerced the claimant into cooperating with an investigation into third parties can be sued for fraud. In Sustainable Sea Products ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The plaintiff in a long-running dispute over the management and distribution of the assets of a bankrupt partnership must pay the defendant’s legal fees, a federal judge has ruled. In this case, the plaintiff’s amended complaint “is baseless on all ...

Tagged with: Judge Claude M. Hilton Sanctions U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In a takings case involving the Mountain Valley Pipeline, or MVP, a federal court has excluded a landowner’s experts who sought to establish the fair market value of her condemned land and the expected depreciation of her remaining land. Judge ...

Tagged with: Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District

A federal contractor’s claim that a whistleblower breached a nondisclosure agreement, or NDA, by disclosing the company’s confidential information to media outlets has survived dismissal. The contractor alleged that the whistleblower’s disclosures caused it reputational and financial harm. The whistleblower ...

Tagged with: Judge Thomas J. Cullen NDA U.S. District Court - Western District Whistleblower

On the second floor of the Henry A. Vanover Judicial Center in Clintwood sits a room stocked with books and toys for the Dickenson County Courthouse’s youngest visitors. The children’s waiting room, described as a “first of its kind” project ...

In 2014, then VADA and VTLA Presidents John Owen and Tom Curcio had a vision for an event to bring lawyers from around the commonwealth together for a day of fun, civil competition. What first began as the Civility Cup ...

Tagged with: 2022 VADA/VTLA Frank N. Cowan Cup golf tournament

A federal court has dismissed a male student’s claim that a university’s disciplinary board discriminated against him because it found both he and his ex-girlfriend were responsible for misconduct, but gave him a harsher penalty. The student contended that the ...

Tagged with: Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon Western District of Virginia

Virginia State Bar Interim Executive Director Cameron R. Rountree has been named the new permanent executive director of the VSB after the Supreme Court of Virginia approved the VSB Council’s recommendation on Sept. 8. Rountree replaces longtime executive director Karen ...

Tagged with: Cameron R. Rountree VSB executive director

A federal court in Virginia has declined to impose sanctions against a plaintiff’s attorney who extensively detailed the psychiatric condition and behavior of the plaintiff’s ex-girlfriend in two publicly filed documents. Judge Norman K. Moon of the Western District had ...