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If you’re wondering what to do with those extra law books you don’t use anymore, you may want to send them on a trip overseas. In June, members of the Virginia Bar Association and the Virginia State Bar will conduct ...

The Virginia Model Project is a book drive to collect legal materials for institutions in Estonia and Poland. The following list gives general guidance as to the most useful books: * Case reporters and casebooks are not helpful. The exception ...

The momentum propelling the family court to final enactment may hit an immovable object-Gov. George F. Allen, who apparently has decided not to sign a funding and staffing bill currently working its way through the General Assembly, a gubernatorial spokesman ...

Lawyers who represent clients charged with drug possession often hear a client say he just happened to be nearby when police discovered the drugs, but he had nothing to do with them. And some stories are more plausible than others. ...

Despite seemingly strong support when first introduced, a bill to roll back the Supreme Court’s mandatory IOLTA rule was stopped in the House banking committee last Thursday. The House Corporations, Insurance and Banking committee voted 10-8, with three abstentions, to ...

Following last Thursday’s House of Delegates passage of a DUI bill that would make Virginia’s drunken driving laws among the strongest in the nation (see sidebar), the question arises of how effective the measure would be if signed into law. ...

Last Thursday, the House of Delegates passed a bill that would make Virginia’s drunken driving laws among the strongest in the nation. Among the provisions of House Bill 365, sponsored by House Majority Leader Del. C. Richard Cranwell, D-Vinton, are ...

A plaintiff’s lawyer suing for a railroad employee’s alleged on-the-job injury may contact “low-level” employees of the defendant railroad to investigate the plaintiff’s case, a Roanoke City circuit judge has ruled. The defendant railroad in the suit under the Federal ...

NORFOLK-In an era when real estate closing work is growing more competitive with the entry of closing companies, title companies and even lay individuals, attorneys can still build a practice based largely on real estate trans-actions. But to retool an ...

A nine-year delay between indictment and trial in a drug case violates constitutional guarantees to a speedy trial, a Pittsylvania circuit judge has held in a bench ruling. The case-Pyron v. Commonwealth (no written opinion available)-involved a 1985 indictment for ...