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A state senator says Virginia lawyers deserve a more independent ear when they fight against Virginia State Bar ethics charges. The VSB retorts that the Jan. 12 proposal from Sen. Chap Petersen favors accused lawyers at the expense of protecting ...

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Gov. Ralph Northam in his last weeks in office granted a conditional pardon to a South Boston man convicted of nonviolent drug offenses under a state law colloquially known as the “kingpin” law. Jesse Dunaway was the only person in ...

Three judges up for re-election to new terms on the bench were left off the list of judges winning early-session General Assembly approval Jan. 24. Any of them could be approved for new terms later in the session. Legislators removed ...

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The lawyer for a once-celebrated high seas treasure hunter has been hit with a four-year Virginia license suspension while his former client sits in prison for refusing to reveal the location of 500 gold coins. The coins are a missing ...

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Virginia Lawyers Weekly compiles a feature each year that highlights the million-dollar verdicts of the prior year, usually run in late January. Typically, there are between 15-20 jury verdicts reported to us where the jury awarded $1 million or more. ...

Paramedics who failed to thoroughly read a man’s advance directive have immunity from the wrongful death suit filed by his sister, the Supreme Court of Virginia has ruled, upholding a decision from Smyth County. The trial court found the paramedics ...

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With the shift in the political makeup of the General Assembly, nine new candidates have emerged for what are now two openings on the Supreme Court of Virginia. Four of the applicants are judges on the Court of Appeals. When ...

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Breit Cantor, the major personal injury firm created by the merger of two Virginia firms less than three years ago, has decided to break up. The split will see the creation of two new firms: Breit Biniazan and Cantor Grana ...

A trial court’s award of a preserved pre-embryo to a wife with no compensation to the husband for his share of the marital property has been reversed by the Court of Appeals. Chief Judge Marla Graff Decker remanded the case ...

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A former Richmond Public Schools teacher can move forward on her Title VII claim for race discrimination against the school district, a federal court judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney Jr. determined that the teacher made sufficient ...

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