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The Virginia Court of Appeals responded today to a Supreme Court of Virginia opinion in April that took the intermediate appellate court to task for dismissing cases under Rule 5A:20(e). That provision requires that the opening brief include “[t]he principles ...

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A shrinking lake has produced evidence of a death that may have occurred more than 80 years ago. Mountain Lake, the centerpiece of the celebrated Mountain Lake Resort, is one of only two natural lakes in Virginia.  Estimated to be ...

Leave it to lawyers to be worried about judicial oversight. Young lawyers serving as judicial clerks dominated the audience waiting for oral argument in a Sarbanes-Oxley case this morning in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond. Overheard ...

Five illegal immigrants are being held in the Fairfax County jail as material witnesses to a murder, even though they are not charged with any crime. As reported by the Washington Post, the five Hondurans may be behind bars for ...

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Virginia Chief Justice Leroy Rountree Hassell Sr. has selected Richmond City Attorney Norman Sales to serve as a faculty member of the Virginia State Bar Professionalism Program, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The bar’s professionalism course is mandatory for all ...

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Members of the Virginia State Bar’s executive committee appeared to be generally supportive of the Fastcase online research service at a meeting yesterday. Jon Huddleston, VSB president-elect and chairman of a VSB task force evaluating Fastcase, acknowledged, “We have a ...

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Members of the Virginia State Bar’s executive committee appeared to be generally supportive of the Fastcase online research service at a meeting yesterday. Jon Huddleston, VSB president-elect and chairman of a VSB task force evaluating Fastcase, acknowledged, “We have a ...

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Those British writers must find us Virginians terribly amusing.  And when we’re not, they are not above making us amusing. Take this article about Barack Obama that appeared today on the website of the British tabloid The Independent.  With a ...

Former Caroline County Commonwealth’s Attorney Harvey Latney Jr. has made a deal with the Virginia State Bar to settle ethics charges against him. Under an agreed disposition, Latney has received a public reprimand with terms for violating rules relating to ...

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Talk about a train wreck. Here are the latest numbers on the devastation caused by Stephen Conrad, the Prince William County lawyer who systematically settled without authorization and pocketed the proceeds from the personal injury cases of his clients: –         ...

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