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Despite the defendant’s protest that its failure to respond to a workplace accident lawsuit was a result of “excusable neglect,” a federal judge refused to set aside a jury’s verdict worth at least $7.5 million. The case presented a choice ...

Tagged with: Federal Tort Claims Act Judge James P. Jones Tort U.S. District Court - Western District

A Fairfax County judge has taken law enforcement to task for a nine-month delay in disclosing information helpful to the defense of a man charged with first-degree murder. “The Commonwealth buried its head in the sand,” wrote Circuit Judge Thomas ...

Tagged with: Criminal Discovery Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Thomas P. Mann Steve Descano

Anyone who has peeked at his or her cellphone during a Zoom meeting likely has recognized the potential for improper witness coaching during a remote deposition. When lawyers, the deponent and the court reporter are in physically different places, it ...

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HOT SPRINGS – With $10 million in reserves, the Virginia State Bar Clients’ Protection Fund should be able to survive on a reduced assessment of $5 per lawyer, VSB officials say. If approved, the proposed reduction next year from the ...

Tagged with: Client Protection Fund fee Hedrick reduction Rountree Virginia Bar Counsel Virginia State Bar

A Reston lawyer has been sidelined from representing a husband in a contentious and complicated Loudoun County divorce action because of his prior representation of a former friend of the husband. The husband accused the former friend of having an ...

Tagged with: Divorce Domestic Relations Family Law Judge Jeanette A. Irby Loudon County Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

The defendants in a trucking accident lawsuit should not be allowed to use a pair of medical experts who were designated after a discovery deadline, a federal judge in Roanoke has ruled. U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen rejected the defendants’ ...

Tagged with: Discovery Expert witness Judge Thomas T. Cullen U.S. District Court - Western District

Refereeing a strained business relationship poisoned by “historic intransigence” on the part of an immigrant bond security company, a federal judge has levied a $3,331,197.55 award of damages – mostly legal expenses – against the business. The award largely represents ...

FAIRFAX (AP) More than a dozen middle schoolers and their families have filed a lawsuit seeking to block changes in the admissions process at an elite public high school in Northern Virginia that has been ranked as the best in ...

“Our senior leaders want us to have our teams do a six-hour online training program. I know that it’s necessary to cover this material — and doing it all at one time is the way it’s always been done — ...

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HOT SPRINGS – The two candidates competing for Virginia State Bar president-elect described their agendas last month as the VSB Council met for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. VSB members will vote for president-elect throughout the month of ...

Tagged with: David Neumeyer Stephanie Grana Virginia State Bar