The Virginia Bar Association recently began an initiative to increase membership by offering services to local bar members for free—on one condition. That condition is that the top three leaders of each local or specialty bar group—typically the president, president-elect ...

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A group of 23 former presidents of the Virginia Bar Association, as well as two civil liberties organizations, have come to the defense of two Virginia  judges accused of improper political activity. The former VBA presidents filed a friend of ...

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HOT SPRINGS — The Virginia Bar Association honored two leaders in the community of Virginia lawyers who practice before the State Corporation Commission at its summer meeting last month at The Homestead. Anthony J. Gambardella Jr. and Guy T. Tripp ...

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Lawyers who write wills have been winning clients with advice on “how to avoid probate.” This marketing pitch may draw estate-planning clients, but delivering for the client has led to a downturn in business for Virginia’s commissioners of accounts, who ...

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Court-appointed mediators in many Virginia divorce cases in­volving children should see their pay double later this year. A measure approved by both the Gen­eral Assembly and the governor specifies that, for mediators appointed for both child custody or visitation matters ...

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A measure to boost pay for court-appointed mediators in Virginia divorce cases appears on track to win approval at the Capitol. Legislation approved by the General Assembly would double the fees paid to mediators in many cases. Money for the ...

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The Virginia Bar Association will again seek to raise the $200 felony threshold in Virginia, one of the lowest in the country. The monetary trigger for felony thefts has not been raised since 1980 and legal reformers say the low ...

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A government integrity study commission is expected to recommend screening panels for Virginia trial judges statewide, modeled after evaluation procedures used by some local bar groups. The goal is to reduce the influence of politics on judicial selection, said former ...

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HOT SPRINGS–The Virginia Bar Association held its annual summer meeting at The Homestead July 23-25, and this year’s do had a festive historical theme: It was the group’s 125th summer meeting. The weekend was both a hat tip to the ...

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“Spawned from the need to confront a policy that offended personal and professional dignity,” African-American lawyers in Virginia began organizing 75 years ago to form the Old Dominion Bar Association, according to ODBA history. Members of the statewide bar group ...

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