“Mise en place” is a French culinary phrase often used in professional kitchens to refer to preparing and arranging the ingredients a chef will require for a meal before service begins. In short, it means to “set in place.” If ...

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More Family Law in Virginia SPONSORED CONTENT By A. Brakke Campfield and Christopher Macturk There you sit with your client, Jane. Her husband, Bob, re­cently told her he wants a di­vorce. Bob claimed the long hours working in his family’s ...

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An issue that divided Virginia trial courts for more than a decade may have been resolved by federal edict. A federal agency last month banned the use of arbitration clauses in nursing home contracts, outlawing a predetermined agreement to resolve ...

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A sense of control is key to decisions by parties and counsel to turn to alternative dispute resolution, whether they decide to arbitrate, or make the increasingly popular choice to mediate. If arbitration is a decision-making process that pres­ents an ...

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In Tomorrow’s Lawyers, Richard Susskind writes, “It is exciting and yet disconcerting to contemplate that there is no finishing line for IT and the Internet.” Susskind’s observation is equally applicable to the fu­ture of family law mediation. Like the Internet ...

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Court-appointed mediators in many Virginia divorce cases in­volving children should see their pay double later this year. A measure approved by both the Gen­eral Assembly and the governor specifies that, for mediators appointed for both child custody or visitation matters ...

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Hello, my name is Shon, and I am a recovering courtroom addict. I used to believe that all family law matters should be tried for their sins and litigated to the end of time. For the first 15 years of ...

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A measure to boost pay for court-appointed mediators in Virginia divorce cases appears on track to win approval at the Capitol. Legislation approved by the General Assembly would double the fees paid to mediators in many cases. Money for the ...

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The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended on Dec. 1. The primary purpose of the amendments is to curtail discovery costs by making the courts and the parties focus on discovery that is “proportional to the needs of the ...

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