Say you’re a domestic relations lawyer in Fairfax and you have a client who needs a divorce. She lives in Herndon and her husband has moved out, finding a place across the Potomac in Rockville, Md. You need certain information ...
Read More »Who dat backing down over “Who Dat?”
It was all a misunderstanding over “Who Dat?” Really it was. That’s what I’d say too if I’d stepped in it and aggravated as many people as the justifiably excited fan base of the Super Bowl-bound New Orleans Saints. And ...
Read More »Who dat claiming “Who Dat?”
Super Bowl note: The long-downtrodden New Orleans Saints make it to the Super Bowl for the first time in their 43-year history, and the National Football League issues heavy-handed ceast-and-desist letters to local vendors pushing T-shirts with the words of ...
Read More »RIP, J.D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger, the notoriously reclusive author of “The Catcher in the Rye,” died Wednesday at the age of 91. “Catcher” shows up on many lists of great books of the 20th century. I remember reading it one summer when I ...
Read More »New leaders at the VBA
More news from the VBA meeting in Williamsburg: The association changed the guard at its winter meeting, with new officers taking over last Saturday. Richmond lawyer John Epps of Hunton & Williams moved into the highly coveted “past president” slot. ...
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Read More »The ‘Mother Rule’
The Virginia Bar Association held its winter meeting in Williamsburg this past weekend. Attendance was good, very good. Maybe we really have turned a corner. One of the CLE sessions I sat in on involved advocacy in ADR, providing a ...
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Read More »Jolly good Fellows
WILLIAMSBURG–The Virginia Law Foundation held its induction dinner last night here in the Colonial Capitol, welcoming 25 new Fellows. They are: * David P. Baugh, Richmond * Craig D. Bell, Richmond * Lynda Lee Butler, Williamsburg * Thomas J. Cawley, ...
Read More »Overheard at lunch…
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 ...
Read More »Law as a Second Career: Alan Page
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 ...
Read More »Good Guys: VBA Awards edition
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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