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Influential Women of Law 2024
Our Influential Women award honors outstanding women lawyers and judges who are making a difference in the profession, their communities and our commonwealth. Read profiles of this year's honorees, as well as those chosen for our inaugural Circle of Excellence.
2023 Unsung Legal Heroes
Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s annual “Unsung Legal Heroes” awards honor law firm employees in a number of categories for their dedication, passion and hard work.
Virginia’s Go To Lawyers for Medical Malpractice
Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to present the next group of honorees in our program recognizing the leading lawyers in a particular field of law. In this issue, we showcase “Virginia’s Go To Lawyers” for medical malpractice law, from the plaintiffs’ and defense side.
VLW presents the Managing Partners Spotlight
Attorneys are natural leaders within their communities. But it takes a special kind of lawyer to lead other lawyers.
Leaders in the Law and Up & Coming Lawyers 2023
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2023 ADR Survey
Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to provide the results of the VLW 2023 Alternative Dispute Resolution Survey. This project provides information about ADR providers across Virginia.
Law Firms on the Move 2023
Welcome to our inaugural list of Law Firms On The Move. This new program is designed to recognize innovative Virginia law firms demonstrating that they are the “ones to watch” through their embrace of innovation in firm management and legal practice, growth strategies, new practice areas, community outreach, and DE&I.
Virginia’s Go To Lawyers for commercial real estate
Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to present the next group of honorees in our program recognizing the leading lawyers in a particular field of law. In this edition, we showcase “Virginia’s Go To Lawyers” for commercial real estate law.
Reader Rankings 2023
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Important Opinions – A recap for January – June 2023
In this issue, Virginia Lawyers Weekly presents a compilation of the Most Important Opinions from January to June 2023. You’ll find over 100 cases highlighted. “Important Opinions” appear both here […]
Virginia’s Go To Lawyers for appellate law
Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to present the next group of honorees in our program recognizing the leading lawyers in a particular field of law. In this edition, we showcase […]
VSB Annual Meeting Special Edition
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Verdicts & Settlements
- Medical Malpractice-Patient received spleen injury during colonoscopy
- Medical Malpractice – Patient suffers complications from improper cyst removal
- Motor Vehicle Negligence Henrico driver sustained wrist fracture in five-car collision
- Medical Malpractice-Patient dies following blood loss in surgery
- Motor Vehicle Negligence – Defense points to plaintiff’s prior collision, stressors
- Medical Malpractice – Ingrown toenail removal leads to CRPS type 2
- Motor Vehicle Negligence Rear-seat passenger injured when car hits telephone pole
- Motor Vehicle Negligence- Car crash after back surgery causes additional injuries
- Medical Malpractice – Jurors side with cardiologist over treatment of strokes
- Negligence and Tort- Ice pack use during tattoo removal causes frostbite
- Workers’ Compensation Struck by metal door at workplace, plaintiff sustains subdural hematoma
Opinion Digests
- Prisons – VDOC must respond to discovery requests
- Criminal – Spouses convicted of construction fraud
- Landlord and tenant – Tenant’s challenge to eviction is dismissed
- Tort – Lawsuit by ‘sting’ victim against conservative organization is dismissed
- Criminal – Defendant’s request to withdraw guilty plea is denied
- Employment – Fairfax County prevails on firefighter’s employment claims
- Prisons – Multiple experts precluded in suit over inmate’s death
- Criminal – District court sufficiently explained resentencing decision
- Criminal – Wealth of evidence supports firearm possession conviction
- Criminal – District court wrongly refused to order forfeiture
- Criminal – Man convicted of killing informant
- Negligence – Jury will decide if business was negligent in slip-and-fall case
