The Virginia State Bar now offers a Web-based form for submitting ethics questions to the VSB Ethics Counsel’s office. Clicking a bright blue button on this page opens the form where attorneys can identify themselves and type in a question ...

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In an unpublished order, the Supreme Court of Virginia today upholds the 12-month suspension of Norfolk lawyer Curtis Tyrone Brown’s license to practice law. A three-judge panel concluded that Brown made a false statement to a judge and disrupted a ...

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In an unpublished order, the Supreme Court of Virginia today upholds the 12-month suspension of Norfolk lawyer Curtis Tyrone Brown’s license to practice law. A three-judge panel concluded that Brown made a false statement to a judge and disrupted a ...

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The Virginia State Bar’s Standing Committee on Legal Ethics will try again to revise the Rule of Professional Conduct that governs in-person solicitation. The rule now prohibits only personal injury attorneys from such solicitations, but the committee published a proposed ...

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The Virginia State Bar Committee on Legal Ethics has trouble imagining a circumstance when sex with a client would not be a violation of legal ethics but stops short of finding such a relationship to be unethical per se in ...

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Legal and ethical questions have been raised by the apparent decision by an accused killer to seek his own execution. Waverly Whitlock, who was charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old boy, has volunteered for the ...

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Today is “Lawyer Professionalism Day” and, not coincidentally, the 266th birthday of the state’s most famous lawyer, Thomas Jefferson. The Virginia Bar Association’s Commission on Professionalism is rolling out its “Principles of Professionalism” by providing electronic copies of the principles ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia has adopted three multijurisdictional practice measures more than two years after the Virginia State Bar Council first recommended them to the high court. The court suggested revisions to the initial proposals, and the VSB sent ...

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Former Caroline County Commonwealth’s Attorney Harvey Latney Jr. has made a deal with the Virginia State Bar to settle ethics charges against him. Under an agreed disposition, Latney has received a public reprimand with terms for violating rules relating to ...

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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 ...

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