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The Gambler got it right: you got to know when to fold ’em. A Vienna employment lawyer unfortunately got it wrong when he pursued a worthless contract case past the point of patience for the defendant former employer. A federal ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Attorneys Fees Contract

An in-house lawyer’s warning that he represented the company, not its employees or CEO, meant the CEO could not use the attorney-client privilege to keep the lawyer from testifying before a federal grand jury. In an unpublished decision June 11 ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Corporate Counsel Criminal Law Firms

The rule that the plan documents, not the summary plan description, control usually works to the detriment of long-term disability claimants in disputes with ERISA administrators. Not this time. The SPD clearly gave Prudential Insurance Company of America the sole ...

The 25-year-old woman went to Fairfax General District Court expecting Judge Lisa A. Mayne to preside over her trial on a drunken driving charge. The prosecutor told her attorney, Corinne Magee, he needed some time to talk to the police ...

Richmond personal injury attorney Jay Tronfeld has settled his lawsuit alleging that a Nationwide adjuster defamed him by telling a client that Tronfeld “just takes people’s money.” The case had been scheduled for trial yesterday in Petersburg Circuit Court, but ...

Tagged with: Defamation Insurance Law Firms Personal Injury

A Hanover County woman who has made a crusade of targeting Internet publication of Social Security numbers filed suit today in federal court in Richmond to block a Virginia law that she says is aimed at her. B.J. Ostergren has ...

Tagged with: First Amendment

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell stepped in a pile last week, insulting the people of Bristol. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama was in Southwest Virginia, appearing with former Gov. Mark Warner, who is running for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican John ...

We have noted some of the shenanigans exposed in recent Virginia elections, mostly involving anonymous mudslinging in violation of election laws. In Amherst County, however, the sheriff says things got physical. An unsuccessful candidate for supervisor is accused of putting ...

Tagged with: Elections

After a house fire that took the life of a Blacksburg builder and severely burned his granddaughter, the community passed the hat to help the family. Now, the injured granddaughter is taking the builder’s widow to court, saying that the ...

Tagged with: Fraud

The US Senate has confirmed Portsmouth chief circuit Judge Mark Davis for a federal district judgeship in Alexandria, according to the AP via WVEC. According to the report, Davis once worked as a lawyer for RMS Titanic Incorporated, the firm ...