Virginia Lawyers Weekly VA Lawyers Weekly

Although a Virginia city claimed it had special concerns about releasing legal bills to a litigation opponent, the Supreme Court of Virginia found no reason to alter the usual standards for attorney-client and work product materials. In a Dec. 6 ...

Tagged with: FOIA Freedom of Information Act Supreme Court of Virginia

Federal courts have the power to hear a motion to vacate or modify an arbitration award in any dispute where they would have the power to hear a motion to compel arbitration, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals News Judge Paul V. Niemeyer

The Virginia State Bar is asking a circuit court for swift sanctions against a lawyer who admitted that he concealed missed deadlines and other lapses from clients, other lawyers and his own law firm. The VSB says allowing Reston attorney ...

Tagged with: bar discipline Lawyer Discipline

Wielding a new tool provided by the Supreme Court of Virginia earlier this year, a circuit judge has dismissed a civil case because the plaintiff missed her deadline for responding to discovery requests. The New Kent County mold case was ...

Tagged with: Charles City Circuit Court Judge B. Elliott Bondurant

Below is a list of the honorees in the Class of 2018 of Unsung Legal Heroes. There are 43 hard-working people in seven different categories, providing support to the lawyers in their firms and service to their clients. Look in ...

A Virginia addiction recovery business can proceed with its federal court claims that a competitor used an underhanded Google tactic to steal potential customers, a judge has ruled. The Richmond-based plaintiff – doing business as Broad Highway Recovery – is ...

Tagged with: Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The 11 judges of the Court of Appeals of Virginia have decided on a change in leadership. The court on Nov. 27 elected Judge Marla Graff Decker as chief judge-elect. On Jan. 1, she will succeed Chief Judge Glen A. ...

Tagged with: Judge Glen A. Huff Judge Marla Graff Decker Virginia Court of Appeals News

Although a jury at sentencing was allowed to hear about a robbery defendant’s Facebook post – allegedly offering stolen pills for sale – the Court of Appeals of Virginia refused to disturb the man’s conviction and 28 year sentence. The ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law Judge William G. Petty Virginia Court of Appeals News

By Nicole Black BridgeTower Media Newswires When I graduated from law school in 1995, the world was a different place. Legal research still took place in law libraries using books. Windows 95 had not yet been released, and MS-DOS reigned ...

An error in reporting bar exam results in Washington, D.C., in November left 13 applicants believing they had passed the July 2018 exam when they had not and 12 others falsely believing they had failed. The list of passing bar ...