A series of recent legal ethics charges suggests Virginia lawyers ought to think carefully about what they say when judges demand their version of events. Three lawyers are in trouble with the Virginia State Bar after judges became skeptical about ...

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A Norfolk Circuit Court denies defendant’s motion to disqualify plaintiff’s counsel in this med-mal suit, based on a lawyer’s change of employment from the firm defending the suit to the firm that represents plaintiff, during the pendency of the litigation; ...

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A Norfolk circuit judge has rejected an effort to unseat lawyers for a medical malpractice plaintiff just four months before trial. The disqualification motion centered on a lawyer who moved from a defense firm – where he represented the defendant ...

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A defendant charged with the fatal shooting of his sister’s long-term live-in boyfriend, who testimony indicated had entered defendant’s home in an intoxicated and extremely belligerent state, is convicted of voluntary manslaughter by the Norfolk Circuit Court in a bench ...

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A three-judge circuit court panel has disbarred a Norfolk lawyer after finding he made intentional misrepresentations to a federal judge about his advice to a criminal client. The federal judge vacated the client’s convictions in 2011 based on ineffective assistance ...

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Although a habeas petitioner says the law has changed to allow sentencing courts discretion to run sentences on firearms convictions concurrently, a Norfolk Circuit Court says the court nevertheless could have petitioner’s sentences run consecutively, and the court dismisses the ...

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An equipment operator who promptly informed his foreman that his perforated ulcer required emergency surgery, and who, after surgery, continued to inform employer that he was available for light duty, left work voluntarily and with good cause when employer did ...

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In an administratrix’s wrongful death suit against various health care providers, she may allege and present evidence that decedent, her husband, suffered “extreme pain and suffering” due to their negligence, a Norfolk Circuit Court says. Defendants argue that because plaintiff ...

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Plaintiff was riding a bicycle on Sept. 19, 2005, on a sidewalk in Virginia Beach. As she crossed the driveway of a bank parking lot, she claims the decedent (who passed away from unrelated causes) began to exit the parking ...

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A driver’s failure to signal a right-hand turn from a dedicated lane for right-hand turns did not give an officer a reason to stop her car, and the Norfolk Circuit Court suppresses marijuana found inside her vehicle. The issue is ...

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