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There is no “good faith exception” when it comes to hand-delivering a list of employer-approved doctors to an employee with compensable injuries as required by the Workers Compensation Act, the Court of Appeals of Virginia has held. The Virginia Workers’ ...

Tagged with: Judge Marla Graff Decker Virginia Court of Appeals Workers’ Comp

In a landmark 2016 study supported by the American Bar Association, 11.4% of responding practicing attorneys reported suicidal thoughts during some portion of their legal career. Since the study’s publication, many groups in the legal profession have sought to address ...

Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to present the next group of honorees in our program recognizing the leading lawyers in a particular field of law. In this edition, we showcase “Virginia’s Go To Lawyers” for business litigation. The attorneys featured ...

The Virginia State Bar’s Special Committee on Technology and the Future of Law Practice reported in 2022 that an emerging market of legal service providers owned by nonlawyers “may be here to stay.” Only two states currently allow nonlawyers to ...

In the wake of “Dieselgate,” Volkswagen is defending against another class action suit — this time by investors claiming they were misled when the company announced it was changing its name to “Voltswagen,” and later revealed it was an April ...

Tagged with: Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. Securities U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A man who was injured while packing his car in a Fairfax County hotel parking lot after a gust of wind pushed a luggage cart into him will be covered by his auto insurance policy for his injuries. The Court ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Frank K. Friedman Virginia Court of Appeals

A long-running charitable tradition in Virginia’s legal community is set to return in 2023. The Legal Food Frenzy, an annual fundraising competition where law firms compete against each other to donate the most to local food banks, is returning for ...

A federal appeals court has upheld a jury’s $730,000 award to a Black Secret Service agent unconstitutionally detained by two white U.S. Park Police officers during a traffic stop as he waited to accompany a Cabinet secretary’s motorcade in Maryland. ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Civil Rights

The Supreme Court of Virginia has reinstated a circuit court’s decision to dismiss a motion to amend a military pension division order, or MPDO. The decision reverses a decision from the Court of Appeals of Virginia, which held that federal ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Justice Cleo E. Powell Supreme Court of Virginia

An employee’s claim has survived demurrer after the trial judge held that Virginia’s wage claim statute would apply retroactively where the employee claimed he was owed wages from both before and after the statute was amended in 2020. Judge Kevin ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Kevin M. Duffan Virginia Circuit Courts