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The vast majority of litigants going through General District Court in Virginia are not represented by attorneys, according to a study conducted on behalf of Blue Ridge Legal Services. Unrepresented litigants lose the majority of General District Court cases when ...

Tagged with: Blue Ridge Legal Services

Even though a domestic violence defendant did not prevent his alleged victim from coming to court, his use of emotional manipulation to silence her was enough to allow her out-of-court statements to be used to convict him, the Virginia Court ...

Tagged with: Judge Glen A. Huff Judge Mary Grace O'Brien Judge Robert J. Humphreys Virginia Court of Appeals

A panel of federal appeals judges had sharp questions last month about why federal prosecutors are resisting a fix for a drug defendant sentenced to 12 years in prison under a mistaken standard. A mutual mistake about application of a ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Michael F. Urbanski Judge Robert B. King Judge Stephanie D. Thack­er

A former military police officer sentenced to 15 years for a 2011 fatal shooting while working as a security guard has been freed after a judge concluded he was never told about a “generous” plea offer. The federal judge – ...

Tagged with: Judge Robert E. Payne U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Virginia Lawyers Weekly presents its annual survey of “Virginia’s Largest Law Firms.” The survey appears in a magazine inserted in the April 23 edition. READ THE DIGITAL EDITION The survey has been compiled every year since 1989 and gives readers ...

A Virginia attorney who has waged a war of words against the Virginia State Bar now claims she is fighting to keep her law license by contesting an impairment inquiry. The bar contends there is a vital public interest in ...

Tagged with: Virginia State Bar News

“The Lean Law Firm,” a new book co-authored by attorney Dave Maxfield of Columbia, South Carolina (along with Larry Port, the CEO of Rocket Matter, a case management software company), is grounded in a few key insights. One is that ...

The discovery that a former Richmond police officer may have lied to obtain search warrants for drug suspects has helped undo convictions for 11 criminal defendants. But one man who pleaded no contest in 2010 to marijuana possession with intent ...

Tagged with: Judge Bradley B. Cavedo Supreme Court of Virginia

A federal judge has approved a $1.1 million settlement for a student, now in his teens, who claimed he was repeatedly abused by the janitor at his elementary school in Russell County. After the suit survived two pretrial rulings, the ...

Tagged with: Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

The Supreme Court of Virginia has ruled that a man convicted of both common law involuntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter must have one of the charges vacated. The dual convictions violate the double jeopardy clause of the Constitution. In making ...

Tagged with: Justice Stephen R. McCullough Supreme Court of Virginia