The Virginia State Bar has charged a Richmond lawyer with a prolonged ruse involving a disputed judgment order and “fraudulent” payments of more than $441,000 to his medical malpractice client. Brooks Hundley is accused of 16 ethics rule violations in ...
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A Fairfax lawyer who continued to openly practice law after being suspended for ignoring a bar subpoena has been sidelined for three years. Randall Sousa testified at a Virginia State Bar disciplinary hearing he viewed his defiance as a form ...
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An Ashland lawyer who appeared to compound his initial error in handling a civil business dispute has incurred a nearly $177,000 malpractice judgment and a three-month bar suspension. The suspension is coupled with close practice supervision for at least a ...
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A former Chesterfield County lawyer was sentenced to more than a year in prison for forging a public document after he admitted giving his client a phony divorce decree. The fake court order caused trouble and expense for both the ...
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A Fairfax attorney has been convicted by a federal jury of conspiring with his wife to raid $653,000 from the campaign bank account of state Sen. Richard Saslaw. Besides the Saslaw scheme, David H. Miller, 70, also conspired to defraud ...
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A lawyer who filed phony divorce documents in Henrico County Circuit Court has pleaded guilty to forgery of a public document and has had his license suspended. Jorge A. Ortiz allegedly told a client that the client’s divorce was accomplished ...
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VIRGINIA BEACH – The Virginia State Bar will no longer use a form of lawyer discipline that led some to believe they were exonerated when, in fact, they had a bar discipline record. The VSB Council agreed June 13 without ...
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A disbarred Virginia lawyer is hoping for a change of heart at the Supreme Court of Virginia after his request for reinstatement was denied in April over the recommendation of a Virginia State Bar panel. Steven F. Helm says the ...
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A lawyer who once served as Luray town attorney has been disbarred for obstructing a Virginia State Bar investigation and then ignoring the bar discipline process. Jason A. Spitler twice cancelled meetings with a VSB investigator last year and then ...
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The Virginia State Bar is asking a circuit court for swift sanctions against a lawyer who admitted that he concealed missed deadlines and other lapses from clients, other lawyers and his own law firm. The VSB says allowing Reston attorney ...
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