Advocates of diversity in the bench and bar say they’re pleased with recent advances in Northern Virginia, but questions remain about whether the progress is sustainable. Observers also see work to be done in making other bar groups more representative. ...

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HOT SPRINGS – With $10 million in reserves, the Virginia State Bar Clients’ Protection Fund should be able to survive on a reduced assessment of $5 per lawyer, VSB officials say. If approved, the proposed reduction next year from the ...

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HOT SPRINGS – The two candidates competing for Virginia State Bar president-elect described their agendas last month as the VSB Council met for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. VSB members will vote for president-elect throughout the month of ...

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The Virginia Bar Association and the Virginia Board of Elections will offer CLE credits to attorneys who volunteer as election officers in November. Election officers, or individuals who help conduct elections at polling places, are crucial to successful Election Day ...

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At least six lawyers have raised concerns about a Virginia State Bar proposal to explicitly ban lawyers from initiating sexual relations with a current client. But there is no consensus on what’s wrong with the proposal. One lawyer questioned the ...

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Richmond environmental lawyer Brian L. Buniva is in line to become the president of the Virginia State Bar in 2020. Despite expressed interest from other attorneys, no one else filed by the Oct. 1 deadline to challenge Buniva’s nominating petition ...

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A Virginia prosecutor has been charged by a Virginia State Bar disciplinary panel with “dishonesty and misrepresentation” in concealing information about a police drug informant. The case against Joseph W. Lee III, formerly with the Portsmouth commonwealth’s attorney’s office, marks ...

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ROANOKE – Justice William C. Mims of the Virginia Supreme Court compares his formula for well-being with the cylinders of his car. The car may have six cylinders, but if the spark is lacking for any one of them, the ...

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VIRGINIA BEACH — Virginia’s appellate courts will launch pilot mediation projects for civil cases next year. A study committee recommended in April that the courts give appellate mediation a try. The Supreme Court of Virginia gave the green light in ...

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A former Tysons Corner law firm associate has agreed to a two-and-a-half-year license suspension, admitting he lied about uncompleted work on collections cases over a period of more than two years. When he admitted his lapses and his lies in May of ...

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