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A comprehensive restructuring of the way localities pay for the costs of growth perhaps proved to be too comprehensive too soon. Senate Bill 768 would have replaced cash proffers, the amount developers pay per unit to get a rezoning approved, ...

Tagged with: General Assembly Real Estate

The Virginia Trial Lawyers Association appears likely to get one of its principal legislative objectives for the year. House Bill 172 allows plaintiffs’ attorneys to get the policy limits of a potential defendant before filing suit. The VTLA had to ...

Tagged with: General Assembly Personal Injury

For the vacant seat on the State Corporation Commission, the House of Delegates wants Richmond lawyer/lobbyist Bernard McNamee. The Senate wants a former delegate, Barnie Day. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that yesterday, three new candidates for the post interviewed with ...

Long before there were bloggers, there were preachers in pulpits charged with delivering momentous news. Thus it was on July 17, 1776, that the Executive Council of Massachusetts took action to let colonists know that our nascent nation had severed ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court

LeClairRyan will absorb Wright, Robinson, Osthimer & Tatum at the end of next month. The merger of the two Richmond-based firms will give LeClairRyan a West Coast presence for the first time and increase the number of attorneys to more ...

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The News & Advance reports this afternoon that the Lynchburg legislative delegation apparently has agreed upon a candidate for a pending circuit judgeship in the 24th Circuit: John Cook. Cook would succeed Judge Sam Johnston of Campbell County, who is ...

Paul G. Mahoney, a corporate law expert at the University of Virginia, will become the 11th dean of the U.Va. law school on July 1. In announcing the appointment today, U.Va. President John T. Casteen III had high praise for ...

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Virginia Lawyers Weekly is pleased to announce a new benefit for subscribers. Starting today, you’ll be able to get a full-text copy of any Circuit Court opinion from 2007 onward that we digest in the paper for FREE. Full-text PDF ...

The Virginia State Bar will seek comments on a proposal for mandatory legal malpractice insurance for attorneys who represent clients drawn from the public. The VSB executive committee and council will get the proposal as an informational item at their ...

Tagged with: Virginia State Bar

An employee who claims his 401(k) account lost value can sue the plan administrator for failure to follow the employee’s investment instructions. On Feb. 20, the U.S. Supreme Court said in LaRue v. DeWolff, Boberg & Associates Inc. that the ...

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