August 12, 2019
Comments Off on Tension between courthouse access and security
Courthouse security is cracking down across Virginia. Despite calls for relaxed cellphone policies in Virginia courthouses, many sheriffs are still reluctant to allow visitors to bring their phones past the security desk. In some locations, lawyers are facing stricter security ...
Tagged with: Courthouse Security Salem Circuit Court Virginia Beach Circuit Court
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August 7, 2019
Comments Off on LeClairRyan to dissolve
The partners of the Richmond-based LeClairRyan PLLC have agreed to dissolution of the firm. An Aug. 7 news release said the firm members voted to commence an “orderly wind down” of the 31-year-old firm. A dissolution committee is said to ...
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August 7, 2019
Comments Off on Rare med mal panel rules against doctor
In what some would call a “unicorn experience,” Virginia had a medical malpractice review panel hearing this year. Review panels once were common as a procedural hurdle for many medical malpractice lawsuits, but they all but died out after the ...
Tagged with: Fredericksburg Circuit Court Medical Malpractice
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August 6, 2019
Comments Off on Defamation suit proper in Fairfax
Actor Johnny Depp’s defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard, his ex-wife, can be tried in Fairfax County, even though neither of the parties has any personal connection to the locale, a Virginia circuit judge ruled. The star of the “Pirates of ...
Tagged with: Defamation Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Bruce D. White
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August 5, 2019
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HOT SPRINGS – Justice William C. Mims has been leading the charge for lawyer wellness for more than a year now. Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons tapped him to chair a special committee of the high court last year; Mims ...
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August 5, 2019
Comments Off on Culture of lawyer wellness takes hold in Virginia
HOT SPRINGS – Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald W. Lemons appeared before the Virginia Bar Association in January 2018, shortly after he had appointed a Virginia Committee of Lawyer Well-Being. The state program was an analogue to a national ...
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August 5, 2019
Comments Off on Judge orders landlord to pay $35,000 to legal aid
A Roanoke landlord who locked horns with a legal aid lawyer representing a tenant has been docked $35,000 after suing the lawyer and the legal aid office. The landlord also faces a criminal charge for a three-month stream of vulgar ...
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August 2, 2019
Comments Off on VLF awards nearly $100,000 in grants to public service internships
The Virginia Law Foundation awarded more than $500,000 to 19 grant recipients earlier this month. The VLF has provided more than $26 million in grants to support law-related projects throughout Virginia since launching the grants program in 2005, according to ...
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August 1, 2019
Comments Off on VCU Health gets grant to continue Medical-Legal Partnership
VCU Health System received a $25,000 grant from the Virginia Law Foundation this month for the continuation of Medical-Legal Partnership-Richmond, a program that brings lawyers to hospitals to “detect, address and prevent conditions that harm the health of patients.” The ...
Tagged with: VCU VCU Health Virginia Law Foundation
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July 31, 2019
Comments Off on Lying to officer, without more, not obstruction
Mere lying to a police officer when he is investigating an accident does not constitute obstruction of justice, the Virginia Court of Appeals has ruled. While a man initially may have told investigating officers that his truck was stolen and ...
Tagged with: Judge Robert J. Humphreys Virginia Court of Appeals News
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