Bate Land Co. LP v. Bate Land & Timber LLC (VLW No. 017-2-211, 21 pp.) (Duncan, J.) 16-2037; Dec. 6, 2017; USDC at Wilmington, N.C. (Boyle, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The bankruptcy court has specialized expertise in valuing property, and ...

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A Roanoke area lawyer is accused of concealing a horse-show lifestyle involving thousands of dollars in spending for show ponies and other high life expenses when she and her husband filed for bankruptcy three years ago. In the face of ...

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An Alexandria lawyer who pursued collection efforts after a tenant filed for bankruptcy has been hit with $5,000 in punitive damages for what the judge labeled “flagrant violations” of legal protections for debtors. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin R. Huennekens said ...

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A former Virginia lawyer seeking to regain his license cannot dis­charge his financial obligation to the Virginia State Bar in bank­ruptcy court, a judge has ruled. Martinsville’s Rickey Gene Young has been trying to return to the ranks of Virginia ...

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Struggling con­sumers in­creasingly are seeking finan­cial help from online lenders, but consumer lawyers warn the relief may be only temporary. High interest rates and fees, levied through relentless bank with­drawals, sometimes bring consumers to the bankruptcy they hoped to avoid, ...

Tagged with: Bankruptcy Judge Keith L. Phillips U.S. Bankruptcy Court

A government contractor that faced federal charges after disregarding lawyers’ advice on use of prohib­ited employees failed to prove a legal malpractice claim against its law firm, a bankruptcy judge has ruled. The decision absolved a now-defunct Washington firm of ...

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A recently launched net­work of bankruptcy law­yers billed as a “nation­wide online law firm” is under fire in a Virginia court. A regional U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee is suing a network of entities operating as “UpRight Law,” including two of the ...

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Although plaintiff has received a chapter 7 discharge, her bankruptcy case has been reopened and the bankruptcy trustee may pursue debtor’s Title VII claim against defendant community college, which debtor did not disclose in her earlier bankruptcy proceeding; the Norfolk ...

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In this litigation among multiple parties over current ownership of a gas estate owned by Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, which went bankrupt in 1928, the Abingdon U.S. District Court grants an application for enhanced fees of $325,000 to the lawyer ...

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In light of the Abingdon U.S. District Court’s approval of a settlement to determine ownership shares of gas interests, under which a bankruptcy estate will receive approximately $2 million of gas royalties currently held in escrow by the Virginia Gas ...

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