The Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board has affirmed a public reprimand against a Prince George County prosecutor who allegedly pursued criminal charges without probable cause. The case represents another instance of bar discipline for a prosecutor, following recent criticism from ...

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A Springfield lawyer who took up with a gambling man 15 years ago has lost her law license for a year based on a federal felony conviction. Sharon R. Connelly told a federal judge in 2007 she had no idea ...

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Seven years after agreeing to revocation of his law license amid allegations of misbehavior in and out of court, a former Richmond lawyer is asking to practice law again. Kenneth Dennis Sisk gave up his license in 2005 after being ...

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A Winchester lawyer facing six complaints from the Virginia State Bar has agreed to a six-month suspension for a series of legal ethics violations, including disobeying a judge’s ruling and filing a pleading while he was under a prior suspension ...

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A lawyer using rented conference rooms as “virtual offices” for client meetings with contract lawyers emerged almost unscathed from a battle with the Virginia State Bar over advertising issues. The Fairfax attorney agreed to a public reprimand without terms and promised several marketing changes to resolve complaints about the promotion of his practice on the Internet. The case presented issues of first impression about Internet marketing and “virtual” law offices, according to an agreed order from a three-judge attorney discipline panel.

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A three-judge panel has spelled out disclaimer language a Richmond lawyer must use when he blogs about his cases, in its final order in the case of Virginia State Bar v. Horace Hunter. The judges ordered Hunter to add the ...

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A defense lawyer has been disciplined by the Virginia State Bar for a one-minute phone call from a misguided plaintiff in a medical malpractice case.

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A Fairfax County prosecutor has been disciplined by a three-judge panel for allowing co-defendant witnesses to lie in a criminal trial. In the discipline case against Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Mark J. Sullivan, the Virginia State Bar asked for a three-month ...

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A Fairfax County prosecutor received a public admonition yesterday from a Virginia State Bar three-judge discipline panel for allegedly withholding evidence about prosecution witnesses. As The Washington Post reports, the judges rejected license suspension for Fairfax County Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney ...

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A Virginia State Bar discipline panel last month yanked the license of a Reston lawyer based on allegations of “gross incompetence, utter lack of diligence, and dishonesty.” A VSB lawyer argued Thomas J. Sehler was “not fit to practice law” ...

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