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The Virginia Military Institute has tolerated and failed to address institutional racism and sexism and must be held accountable for making changes, according to a state-sanctioned report released June 1. The 145-page report states that “racial slurs and jokes are ...

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Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to present the second group of honorees in our program recognizing the leading lawyers in a particular field of law. In this issue, we name “Virginia’s Go To Lawyers” for employment law. A “Go To ...

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Virginia lawyers who serve in the General Assembly enjoy outsized powers and privileges in their interactions with the judges who rule on their cases. But any regulation would be impractical, many of them say. In Virginia, lawyer-legislators can have a ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia has blocked a $20,000 award of costs to medical malpractice defendants after the plaintiff took a mid-trial nonsuit, ruling the order granting costs came more than 21 days after the nonsuit order. The May 20 ...

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Fifty-two Roanoke-area lawyers have asked the Senate Judiciary Committee for more women candidates to be appointed to circuit and general district judgeships in their circuit. In a letter to the committee sent May 14, the group noted that only one ...

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A former lawyer accused of defrauding two elderly clients may be confronted on the witness stand with the Virginia State Bar affidavit she signed when she agreed to give up her law license in 2019, a Lynchburg federal judge has ...

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A Floyd County circuit judge has refused to allow the state to seize a couple’s home alleged to have been the site of a major marijuana distribution operation. The judge cited the fact that only one spouse had been convicted ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Drug seizure Floyd County Circuit Court Judge K. Mike Fleenor Jr. marijuana

A federal jury awarded a Roanoke County couple $430,000 in an eminent domain case on May 14, the first such verdict among cases related to the Mountain Valley Pipeline project. The verdict was reached after a four-day trial in federal ...

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A lawyer who takes on a contingency-fee case after the client has fired a previous lawyer has an ethical duty to inform the client that the first lawyer may have a financial claim for the work she did, according to ...

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Acknowledging a lapse in pretrial disclosures, federal prosecutors in the Western District of Virginia agreed to dismissal of all charges against a woman convicted by a jury of providing contraband to her jailed boyfriend. The move followed a dispute over ...

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