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Two parallel initiatives in the Virginia court system are designed to deal with two different groups of pro se litigants. The Supreme Court of Virginia wants to help those who cannot afford a lawyer, but who seek relief in the ...

A federal appeals court will be asked to consider the limits of a federal law that criminalizes inciting a riot in a case arising from the 2017 Charlottesville rally. Before three members of a white supremacist group pleaded guilty this ...

NORFOLK (AP) — Deep inside a six-story, brown and tan state building in Norfolk, not far from the waterfront, you’ll find thousands of sealed bags stored in a locked vault. Each bag is labeled with a unique identification number and ...

A Manassas lawyer’s fast ways with money cost him a license suspension of a year and a day after his partner turned him into the Virginia State Bar. A panel of the VSB Disciplinary Board found that James S. Del ...

A Virginia prosecutor has agreed to a Virginia State Bar reprimand for listening to a recording of a phone call between a lawyer and his jailed client. The call was recorded because the lawyer had not registered his phone number ...

Twenty-two lawyers will begin their terms as Virginia State Bar Counsel members beginning July 1 after they were elected by the highest voter turnout since the bar switched to electronic balloting. Twelve of them will be entering their first three-year ...

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In a case of a two-pronged payback, a man who shot a pair of road-rage assailants and then sued the one who survived may have to try his damages case again in Richmond Circuit Court. Four justices of the Supreme ...

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This month another crop of new lawyers entered the legal workforce in Virginia. Hiring has been pretty good, so here’s hoping that law firms and other organizations pull the trigger and let the new lawyers put their new law licenses ...

Even though a written final order had not been entered, a woman seeking to withdraw a guilty plea could not do so after oral sentencing from the bench, the Supreme Court has ruled. The woman claimed she did not realize ...

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(AP) — C u in court. Courts around the country are embracing text messages as a way to nudge people into showing up for their hearings. On any given day, up to half of defendants fail to show up for ...

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