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Attorneys need not be unduly concerned about the financial strength of the banks that hold their trust accounts – at least until December 2009. On Nov. 21, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. approved regulations making non-interest bearing accounts an exception ...

That description of a recent Norfolk Circuit Court case on the court’s Web site sounds like those English class assignments on collective nouns: a pack of hounds, a congress of baboons, a charm of hummingbirds. In fact, Judge Everett Martin ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

That description of a recent Norfolk Circuit Court case on the court’s Web site sounds like those English class assignments on collective nouns: a pack of hounds, a congress of baboons, a charm of hummingbirds. In fact, Judge Everett Martin ...

Tagged with: Medical Malpractice

Over three-quarters of the people who responded to this past week’s Web poll report that they, or their firms, will be cutting back on the holiday gifts they give to clients, colleagues or associates. Some 78 percent of those who ...

Tagged with: Law Firms

Over three-quarters of the people who responded to this past week’s Web poll report that they, or their firms, will be cutting back on the holiday gifts they give to clients, colleagues or associates. Some 78 percent of those who ...

Tagged with: Law Firms

What does it take for a dissatisfied divorce client to sue his lawyer? His own opinion may be enough. A husband unhappy with the outcome of his case responded to his lawyer’s bill with a claim for legal malpractice. The ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Legal Malpractice

What does it take for a dissatisfied divorce client to sue his lawyer? His own opinion may be enough. A husband unhappy with the outcome of his case responded to his lawyer’s bill with a claim for legal malpractice. The ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Legal Malpractice

In the continuing serial, As the Housing Market Downturns, the latest episode sees yet another Northern Virginia condo buyer try to bail on his contract. When last we left our unhappy buyers, one group that bought condos in 2005 at ...

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

Scott Hoover apparently will have to go it alone in his quest for reimbursement from the Virginia Lottery. Hoover is the Washington & Lee University professor who challenged the state lottery system on its advertised odds for certain scratch-off games.  ...

Tagged with: Contract

Judge Cleo E. Powell was sworn in formally this afternoon as the newest judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals. She had served previously as a general district and circuit judge in Chesterfield County. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine appointed her ...

Tagged with: Virginia Court of Appeals