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Professor Neill H. Alford Jr., who taught law at the University of Virginia law school for 41 years, has died at the age of 88. The Richmond Times-Dispatch has an appreciation.

The Virginian-Pilot is reporting that Norfolk Circuit Judge Alfred M. Tripp has been barred from court. The paper’s source did not state the reasons for the action. The judge’s docket was transferred to another judge Friday and a substitute judge ...

The Virginia State Bar Council took decidedly different positions Friday on two issues described as public protection measures. One was a proposal to require insurance companies to notify claimants when they mail settlement checks to the claimants’ attorneys. That measure ...

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The results for the July 2007 Virginia Bar Examination are in. Click on the words above and you’ll head to a list of the 1,081 applicants who were successful in Roanoke last summer. A total of 1,502 people sat for ...

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Read the 2006 federal rules on e-discovery, but don’t ignore the old case law, a Richmond federal district judge told lawyers yesterday at a Richmond-area bench-bar conference. The changes to Federal Rules 26, 33, 34 and 37 didn’t develop in ...

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Speaking of tasers, more people are speaking of tasers these days. Virginia Lawyers Weekly reports three taser-related cases in next week’s issue, which doubles the number of “taser” cases reported in prior years since 1993. A Richmond federal district judge ...

Reed Smith LLP will establish a presence in China when it merges with a Hong Kong firm on Jan. 1. The partners of Richards Butler Hong Kong will become partners in Reed Smith, an international law firm originally founded in ...

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Supreme Court Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn was sworn in yesterday at an investiture ceremony in downtown Richmond, reports The Associated Press.

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Three death-penalty law experts met yesterday at the University of Richmond law school. Even with the U.S. Supreme Court poised to rule soon on whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment, they agreed the debate over the death penalty ...

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A Valparaiso University law professor who is an expert in animal control law has been selected to decide what to do with the 48 pit bulls seized at Michael Vick’s Surry County property. The Daily Press has the story.