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The Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce, of which our company is a member, has tapped into a program called “Connect 4 Lunch.” You sign up and based on your general stated interests and profile, you get matched to three Chamber ...

Here’s an item in honor of the Minnesota Vikings, who may or may not be headed to the Super Bowl after this weekend. Alan Page, a defensive tackle, was one of the Vikings’ vaunted “Purple People Eaters” of the 1960s ...

Here’s a preview of coming attractions for the Virginia Bar Association winter meeting later this week. Good Guys, Part 1. The VBA will give its William B. Spong Jr. Professionalism Award to two men, Bill Van Buren of Norfolk and ...

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Every now and then we’ll get a story about a judge or lawyer behaving badly, based on something really kind of off the wall. Here’s one from Southern Maryland: A circuit judge has been brought up on ethical charges for…deflating ...

Apparently there are grass scofflaws in Spotsylvania County that need to be given the business. Eighteen counties currently have the authority to enact local ordinances requiring residents to keep their grass cut to a length of no longer than 12 ...

Richmond lawyer Andy Nea will be honored later this month by the Richmond Bar Association when he picks up the RBA’s John C. Kenny Pro Bono Award for 2009-2010. The association gives the Kenny award annually to an individual or ...

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“Dear VA Lawyers,” the e-mail message started. Uh-oh. We’ve gotten junk mail addressed to “Ms. Virginia Lawyers Weekly” before. Once, Virginia nearly won the publisher’s clearinghouse sweepstakes. “2009 has generated a lot of uncertainty for many people but there is ...

Elizabeth Wurtzel, the author of “Prozac Nation” and “Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women,” has a column in this morning’s Wall Street Journal on “Tough Times for Big Law.” Wurtzel, who graduated from Yale Law School last year and has ...

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The College of Knowledge is looking for a new mascot, as I reported earlier this week. But Judge Lou Campbell from Botetourt County kicked me a note, reminding me that a few years ago, Prof. George Grayson of the William ...

The College of William and Mary has been in the hunt for a new mascot since February. This morning the school announced the five finalists for mascot, the creature that bounces around the sports field, urging the team to victory ...