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A Glen Allen solo lawyer charged with embezzling client money has been disbarred. The Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board revoked the law license of Michael A. Lormand with a summary order on June 22, effective immediately. The board said it ...

Two police officers face three felony charges each in the February shooting of a Lynchburg accountant in his home. The accountant, Walker Sigler, was left with serious and permanent injuries, according to his lawyer. The Lynchburg officers went to Sigler’s ...

Need to keep track of your bankruptcy hearing schedule while on the move? The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District has an app for that. The court has rolled out “ChapMobile,” a free app for iOS and Android devices ...

(AP) A sniper serving life in prison for terrorizing the Washington, D.C., region as a teenager must get new sentencing hearings in Virginia, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The 3-0 decision by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

(AP) A group of women’s health care providers filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to overturn a number of Virginia’s abortion regulations in light of a landmark 2016 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The lawsuit filed in federal court challenges Virginia laws, ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE (AP) A former University of Virginia student who filed a civil rights lawsuit after his 2015 arrest by alcohol-enforcement agents has received a nearly $250,000 settlement. Martese Johnson sued Virginia’s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and three of its ...

ALEXANDRIA (AP) The Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center is ending its contract with the federal government amid local objections to holding non-criminal children in jail-like settings. Filling beds with children in the federal refugee resettlement program has saved the city ...

A panel of the Virginia State Bar awarded $13,640.00 in reimbursement to former clients of three Virginia attorneys at its most recent meeting on May 4, the bar reported. The Clients’ Protection Fund Board also authorized payments totaling $5,800.00 to ...

(AP) Police in Richmond and two neighboring counties are planning to encrypt their police radio channels, ending public access to their communications. Police chiefs in the city of Richmond, and Chesterfield and Henrico counties said Monday that their radio traffic ...

PETERSBURG (AP) A free legal clinic is being offered to help Virginia veterans draft estate planning documents and answer questions about state and federal benefits. During the event, volunteer attorneys from Attorney General Mark Herring’s office and the Virginia State ...