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Jul 6, 2026
Bar pays $264K from Clients’ Protection Fund
The Virginia State Bar Clients’ Protection Fund authorized $264,643 in reimbursements to clients of 12 attorneys for incomplete or improper legal services.
Jul 3, 2025
Clients’ Protection Fund pays $117K to petitioners
The Virginia State Bar Clients' Protection Fund Board approved $117K in payments to former clients of eight attorneys for unearned or incomplete legal services across multiple practice areas.
Legal Tech
- AI in practice: How new technology is affecting litigation practice
- Experts foresee legal malpractice risk for those who eschew AI
- Legal Decoder launches AI-powered billing analytics interface
Verdicts & Settlements
- Negligence and Tort – E-bike collision leads to neck injury, psoriasis flare
- Motor Vehicle Negligence – ‘Daydreaming’ driver hit plaintiff walking by road
- Motor Vehicle Negligence 92-year-old dies after being hit by vehicle
- Motor Vehicle Negligence – Motorcyclist suffers severe injuries in vehicle accident
- Medical Malpractice – Patient dies after alleged improper medicine admin
Opinion Digests
- Employment – Multiple discrimination claims are dismissed with prejudice
- Commercial – Rental company denied TRO in dispute with Norfolk Airport Authority
- Banks and banking – Court dismisses EFTA claim in fraud victim’s complaint against bank
- Employment – Disability discrimination claim is dismissed
- Copyright – Copyright registrations didn’t extend to interior spaces
- Tort – Suit alleges data center construction is private nuisance
- Civil Procedure – Non-diverse suit remanded to circuit court
