In the first case to approve the use of predictive coding over a party’s objection, a Loudoun Circuit Court judge has signed off on the defense’s computer-assisted review results in a document-heavy case. Computer-assisted review made headlines over the past ...

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The pace for adoption of predictive coding in discovery is accelerating, say lawyers familiar with using computers for mass document review. One Virginia court was an early adopter. In April 2012, Loudoun Circuit Judge James H. Chamblin issued a two-page ...

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This case involved a motor vehicle accident wherein the defendant pulled out from a stop sign into the path of the plaintiff, causing a comminuted tibial plateau fracture. As a result of the fracture, the plaintiff had to undergo a ...

Tagged with: Judge James H. Chamblin Loudoun County Circuit Court Personal Injury

This was a medical malpractice case involving emergency medical treatment provided to the plaintiff, at the Loudoun Hospital Center on Oct. 30, 2004. At the time of presentation, the ER physician defendant was told that the plaintiff had recently had ...

Tagged with: Judge James H. Chamblin Loudoun County Circuit Court Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Defense Verdicts Wrongful Death

Plaintiff’s wife underwent surgery to remedy blocked fallopian tubes and remove abdominal adhesions. Defendant physician recommended the surgery to improve the wife’s chances of success with IVF therapy. Another physician, who was not a party to the case, performed the ...

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The Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board has suspended the license of a Leesburg lawyer for five years because he continued to practice law and accepted a fee without providing services after his license had been suspended administratively. The action against ...

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Don’t look for rulings from the Supreme Court of Virginia in the Spear ad damnum case or the much-litigated defamation claim of a former Raytheon Technical Services Co. executive. Both have been settled under confidential terms, less than two weeks ...

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Where husband can only communicate with wife by e-mail or text messaging, under a JDR court protective order, and he testified he prefers no dialogue with wife and not to communicate with her at all, a Loudoun County Circuit Court ...

Tagged with: Domestic Relations Judge James H. Chamblin Loudoun County Circuit Court

Although husband claimed he began depositing his paycheck in a separate account for household expenses and to prevent wife’s access to pay her gambling debts, a Loudoun County Circuit Court does not find wife’s gambling to be an addiction or ...

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Although husband got a $36,538 bonus in 2008, without a track record on the bonuses and with no word of a 2009 bonus as of the November hearing, a Loudoun County Circuit Court says it will not add a bonus ...

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