Virginia Court of Appeals Judges Cleo E. Powell and Elizabeth A. McClanahan appear to be set to move up to the Supreme Court of Virginia under an agreement between House Democrats and Senate Republicans. The General Assembly will convene Friday ...

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Second marriages and “first” children are generating more issues in estate-planning practice, as couples continue to divorce and remarry before they can celebrate that golden anniversary with one spouse. One of those issues is making sure the children of each ...

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Worries about windshield time for judges assigned to duty beyond a home court surfaced at last night’s Hampton Roads hearing on judicial redistricting proposals. The July 14 hearing in Portsmouth was the fourth in a series of six public hearings ...

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A lawyer takes a phone call from a woman eager to tell him why she wants a divorce. Politeness outweighs any concern about a possible conflict. As the woman starts to tell him about an affair, he realizes to whom ...

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Richard H. Poff, a congressman for 19 years and a member of the Supreme Court of Virginia from 1972 to 1988, died June 28. He was 87. Word of Justice Poff’s death came in a statement late Tuesday afternoon from ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia has set aside a $900,000 judgment for an emergency-room doctor who said hospital officials pressured her practice group to fire her because she supported disgruntled ER nurses. A Roanoke City jury awarded the damages to ...

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Retired Supreme Court Justice Roscoe B. Stephenson Jr. died May 30 at a convalescent center near his home in Covington. He was 89. Justice Stephenson served on the court from 1981 until 1997 and was active as a senior justice ...

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The Supreme Court of Virginia has ruled that a legal malpractice suit alleging that a law firm had missed a deadline for filing an estate tax return was itself filed too late. The co-executors of an estate filed suit in ...

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ROANOKE—The Supreme Court of Virginia expects to have plenty of data to back up its proposal for realignment of judicial boundaries when it hands the plan to the General Assembly in November. Legislators proposed a judicial realignment plan in the ...

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Four leaders of the House Courts of Justice Committee want to know whether any judges seeking reelection during the 2012 General Assembly session have applied a controversial 2011 Supreme Court case on deferred judgment. In an April 27 letter to ...

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