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Wielding a new tool provided by the Supreme Court of Virginia earlier this year, a circuit judge has dismissed a civil case because the plaintiff missed her deadline for responding to discovery requests. The New Kent County mold case was ...

Tagged with: Charles City Circuit Court Judge B. Elliott Bondurant

Below is a list of the honorees in the Class of 2018 of Unsung Legal Heroes. There are 43 hard-working people in seven different categories, providing support to the lawyers in their firms and service to their clients. Look in ...

A Virginia addiction recovery business can proceed with its federal court claims that a competitor used an underhanded Google tactic to steal potential customers, a judge has ruled. The Richmond-based plaintiff – doing business as Broad Highway Recovery – is ...

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

The 11 judges of the Court of Appeals of Virginia have decided on a change in leadership. The court on Nov. 27 elected Judge Marla Graff Decker as chief judge-elect. On Jan. 1, she will succeed Chief Judge Glen A. ...

Tagged with: Judge Glen A. Huff Judge Marla Graff Decker Virginia Court of Appeals News

Although a jury at sentencing was allowed to hear about a robbery defendant’s Facebook post – allegedly offering stolen pills for sale – the Court of Appeals of Virginia refused to disturb the man’s conviction and 28 year sentence. The ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Judge William G. Petty Virginia Court of Appeals News

By Nicole Black BridgeTower Media Newswires When I graduated from law school in 1995, the world was a different place. Legal research still took place in law libraries using books. Windows 95 had not yet been released, and MS-DOS reigned ...

An error in reporting bar exam results in Washington, D.C., in November left 13 applicants believing they had passed the July 2018 exam when they had not and 12 others falsely believing they had failed. The list of passing bar ...

The intersection of medicine and law extends beyond cases of medical malpractice, despite what some lawyers may think. To state the obvious, every lawyer at some point has been a patient. Conversely, every physician’s practice is regulated by the law. ...

Tagged with: General Assembly Medical Society of Virginia

As a federal plan to address nursing home arbitration contracts remains stalled, the arbitration battle continues in Virginia courtrooms. A Nelson County circuit judge used a two-pronged analysis in June to deny arbitration in a wrongful death case, pointing to a ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael T. Garrett Nelson County Circuit Court Nursing Home Malpractice

Parents who sued a gynecologist over alleged injuries to their then-unborn child cannot recover for the child’s medical bills until the child asserts his own personal injury claim, a Virginia circuit judge has ruled. The decision by Fairfax County Judge ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David A. Oblon