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Gov. Tim Kaine will have to fill judicial vacancies because the General Assembly adjourned this morning without filling any seats, just as it failed to reach agreement on transportation policy and funding. A deal that would have put Chesterfield County ...

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Irving M. Blank, a Richmond attorney and member of the Virginia State Bar executive committee, has announced that he is running for president-elect of the VSB. VSB bylaws require candidates for the position to submit a petition with the names ...

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Irving M. Blank, a Richmond attorney and member of the Virginia State Bar executive committee, has announced that he is running for president-elect of the VSB. VSB bylaws require candidates for the position to submit a petition with the names ...

Tagged with: Virginia State Bar

A Virginia judge can pass the collection plate at church, but the judge may not want to preach during the stewardship campaign, according to a new ethics advisory opinion for judges. Virginia’s Canons of Judicial Conduct clamp down on fund-raising ...

Tagged with: Ethics Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission

A Virginia judge can pass the collection plate at church, but the judge may not want to preach during the stewardship campaign, according to a new ethics advisory opinion for judges. Virginia’s Canons of Judicial Conduct clamp down on fund-raising ...

Tagged with: Ethics Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission

Former secretaries of state James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher are the big names associated with the National War Powers Commission, but the group that issued its report today on the interaction between the president and Congress on matters ...

In what his attorneys say is an effort to stop the financial bleeding, former pro football quarterback Michael Vick filed for Chapter 11 protection yesterday in Newport News. Bloomberg has an account of the filing, and we have the petition ...

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Lost in the flap about a white supremacist facing federal contempt charges was the substance of the opinion that brought the charges to the surface. Now available on the Western District Web site, Magistrate Judge Michael F. Urbanski’s opinion explains ...

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Attorneys registered to file documents electronically in the Eastern District of Virginia must deliver or send by mail a form with their written signature and a photocopy of a government-issued photo identification to the clerk’s office in Alexandria. If the ...

The 4th of July weekend is coming, and many people will be traveling, but thanks to the price of gas, maybe not as many as in years past. This sign explains why: