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No qualified bidders appeared at an auction for Michael Vick’s home near Atlanta. Meanwhile, a Norfolk bankruptcy judge hears arguments today on whether Vick should be forced to come to court. USA Today gets both stories on one page.

A Richmond judge has found that McGuireWoods LLP cannot be held liable for legal malpractice because it failed to file the transcript in an appeal of an $8.3 million jury verdict against the Wintergreen ski resort. Wintergreen and its insurers ...

Former Middletown Mayor Gene Dicks, along with former town maintenance supervisor Glen Miller, have been arrested for allegedly embezzling supplies and fraudulently using town equipment and labor. Although details are not clear at this point, current Mayor Marshall J. Brown ...

Tagged with: Fraud

While defenders of a teenaged boy convicted of rape have been publicly proclaiming his innocence, the prosecutor still is forbidden to respond out of court. Stafford Circuit Judge J. Martin Bass stayed a juvenile court judge’s ruling yesterday, blocking Deputy ...

Tagged with: Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has named Mark E. Rubin as counselor to the governor effective today. Rubin has served as senior advisor and deputy counselor to the governor since Kaine took office in 2005. He replaces Larry Roberts, who is ...

Tagged with: Gov. Tim Kaine

4th Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III has been selected to give the commencement address to University of Virginia grads on May 17. Judge Wilkinson is a University of Virginia law school graduate and a contender for a Supreme Court ...

The freeze in salaries at one Virginia law firm will mean cuts in starting pay for new associates in the fall.  McGuireWoods confirms that it will cut first-year pay by 10 percent this year to ensure a pay gap between ...

Tagged with: Law Firms

A much-sued former surgeon has lost his bid for bankruptcy protection because a judge found he lied to hide his assets. In an eight-month stint at a hospital in suburban Charleston, W.Va., osteopathic spine surgeon John A. King managed to ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

Producers of the movie Your Mommy Kills Animals, who won contract damages and copyright protection, got enough, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held March 6. The VLW Blog reported the dispute in Berman v. Johnson in October 2007, ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Intellectual Property

A Spotsylvania County family left the courthouse empty handed yesterday after a jury refused to blame animal control officers for the brutal dog mauling death of an 82-year-old woman. Represented by Charlottesville’s Tom Albro, the family contended that the county ...

Tagged with: Wrongful Death