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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 — ...

Tagged with: Coronavirus Zoom

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

A plan to increase the size of the Virginia Court of Appeals to provide an appeal of right in all trial court cases likely will be considered by the 2021 General Assembly. Sen. Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax County, said he has ...

Tagged with: Appeal of right Judicial Council of Virginia Virginia Court of Appeals

The Medical Society of Virginia will spend the next year focusing on mental health wellness programs for physicians, according to the group’s new president. Dr. Arthur J. Vayer Jr. was installed as the 200th president of the physician advocacy group ...

A Pulaski County sheriff’s deputy does not have qualified immunity in a civil rights lawsuit filed by a woman he mistakenly charged with felony drug distribution, a federal judge has ruled. The woman contends the deputy lacked probable cause because ...

Tagged with: Civil Rights Judge Thomas T. Cullen Qualified immunity U.S. District Court - Western District

(AP)  A judge on Oct. 27 ruled in favor of Gov. Ralph Northam’s plans to remove an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee — but said the state can’t immediately act on his order. Richmond Circuit Judge W. ...