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A lawyer discipline case has the Virginia Supreme Court asking when does negligence in prosecuting a criminal case cross the line into incompetence that can be sanctioned by the Virginia State Bar. Last September, the VSB Disciplinary Board affirmed a ...

A federal judge is threatening to hold two Richmond attorneys in contempt after neither showed for a plea agreement hearing Wednesday in a cigarette trafficking case. David Paul Morgan and J. Thompson Cravens entered an appearance in the case on ...

The Court of Appeals says a trial court did not err in declining to grant father a continuance of a custody and visitation hearing in response to father’s presentation that morning of a letter from new counsel requesting a hearing, ...

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Virginia Lawyers Weekly won seven awards in the 2013 Virginia Press Women Communications Contest, five of which were for first place. The awards were presented at the VPW Spring Conference in Lexington April 13. Deborah Elkins won two first-place awards, ...

Candidates for Virginia circuit court judgeships who failed to win election by the General Assembly have another questionnaire to complete. Gov. Bob McDonnell Tuesday announced the process for interested candidates to apply for six funded-but-unfilled judicial vacancies on Virginia’s circuit ...

The Supreme Court of Virginia is asking for comments on a revised set of proposed rules for “waived-in” lawyers. The latest proposal would remove many of the practice restrictions for out-of-state lawyers who take advantage of Virginia’s reciprocity rules for ...

The Supreme Court of Virginia has stepped back from rule changes that would have prohibited lawyers from advertising their certifications as specialists in fields such as trial advocacy and elder law. In the latest set of advertising rules published Monday, ...

Virginia Supreme Court Justice William C. Mims was among the thousands who ran in Monday’s Boston Marathon. He reportedly escaped unscathed as two explosions caused death, injury and havoc at the finish line. “Justice Mims is back in Richmond and ...

Halsey Minor – the one-time tech entrepreneur from Charlottesville – will be ordered to appear at a deposition in Norfolk in connection with the bankruptcy case involving the historic Carter’s Grove plantation, according to court records. Minor skipped previously scheduled ...

Petersburg’s circuit court judges have appointed Petersburg lawyer Ray P. Lupold III to the general district court bench for the 11th District. The appointment comes in the wake of the General Assembly’s failure to fill the funded judicial seat. Senators ...