A prosecutor accused of intentionally withholding evidence required to be disclosed to a criminal defendant’s lawyer won dismissal of bar charges on July 22. A district committee of the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board unanimously determined to dismiss the bar ...

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A lawyer suspended from bankruptcy court last year avoided related discipline from the Virginia State Bar in May, but his handling of two non-bankruptcy matters has led to a four-month suspension of his law license. While suspended, attorney Darryl A. ...

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A lawyer whose wife sold knock-off fashion accessories on the Internet ended up defending both a $2 million trademark infringement suit and Virginia State Bar disciplinary charges. The lawsuit – criticized as “legal extortion” in one pleading – cost the ...

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A suspended Virginia lawyer launched an election campaign for circuit court clerk despite pending state bar charges that he improperly used trust money for personal purposes. Kevin L. Cash is scheduled to face the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board on ...

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A Virginia State Bar disciplinary panel has accused a former commonwealth’s attorney of misleading a jury about possible benefits for the testimony of a government witness. Former Culpeper County Commonwealth’s Attorney Gary L. Close is facing four possible findings of ...

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After a lawyer fought for two years against charges of unethical conduct in a domestic violence case, a three-judge panel took 15 minutes to exonerate her this month. The lawyer claimed the ethics charges were the result of overreaching by ...

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A former Northern Virginia lawyer who repeatedly was sanctioned in his bankruptcy practice and attracted at least a dozen bar complaints before giving up his license now has pleaded guilty to trying to scam millions from clients and banks. Michael ...

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A Bedford lawyer has been reprimanded by a Virginia State Bar disciplinary panel after a judge used blunt terms to disqualify the lawyer from a criminal case. Carter B. Garrett’s representation of a drug defendant facing trial presented “an actual ...

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Following a 4-to-1 defeat in its effort to suspend a bankruptcy lawyer based on a similar sanction by a federal court, the Virginia State Bar is considering a rewrite of the rules for reciprocal discipline. The VSB Disciplinary Board in ...

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A Richmond-area lawyer facing $177,000 in federal tax liens has agreed to a six-month suspension for using his attorney trust account as a regular operating account for his law practice, according to the Virginia State Bar. W. Stephen Coleman turned ...

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