A Richmond lawyer has beaten the Virginia State Bar in its efforts to revoke his law license. At the end of an 11-hour hearing on May 20, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board dismissed misconduct allegations against Charles E. Ayers ...

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Midlothian attorney Stacy F. Garrett III, a former Richmond prosecutor, has been hit with a second one-year suspension of his law license. A three-judge panel of Chesterfield County Circuit Court ordered the suspension for Garrett, finding he failed to use ...

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Dear Editor: Two articles about lawyer discipline in your May 9 issue stand in remarkable contrast to each other. In the first article (“Leesburg lawyer disbarred in Md. for forging papers”), you report that a lawyer tried to help a ...

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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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A three-judge panel has revoked the license of Norfolk lawyer Mark M. Kantro for concealing $161,000 in income from his wife during their divorce. The money came as a windfall in January 2005 at a time when Kantro was testifying ...

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Richmond lawyer Horace F. Hunter faces a June 10 disciplinary hearing before the Virginia State Bar on a charge that a blog on his law firm website does not carry a disclaimer. Hunter says the VSB’s demand for a disclaimer ...

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Del. Joe Morrissey, D-Richmond, should not get his law license back, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board concluded Tuesday night. Board Chairman William E. Glover said the two-day hearing on Morrissey’s request for reinstatement “gives the board no reason to ...

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Monica Marie Goodling, the key figure in the controversy about the political hiring and firing of U.S. Attorneys during the Bush Administration, has received a public reprimand from the Virginia State Bar. A VSB subcommittee concluded that Goodling, a member ...

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A Leesburg lawyer who succumbed to the pleas of a grieving family by falsifying estate planning documents has been disbarred in Maryland, despite a judge’s finding that the dishonest conduct was unlikely to recur. The Court of Appeals of Maryland, ...

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A Colonial Heights lawyer has surrendered his law license rather than contest allegations that he took money from the personal account of the lawyer he worked for in Gloucester. The revocation of the license of Gregory A. Thomas was effective ...

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