The Supreme Court of Virginia has released its latest statistical abstract on the commonwealth’s courts. One focal point for evaluating how business gets done is Virginia circuit courts’ rate of compliance with a voluntary guideline to conclude civil cases within ...

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Have you ever thought about getting a law-related vanity license plate for your car? If you have, you’re not alone, there apparently are a lot of lawyer vanity plates out there. We haven’t seen them all, but we have seen ...

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Nicknames that sounded good when you were 15 may not work as well when you’re 25 and may well be used by only your oldest and closest friends when other folks more often address you as, “Your honor.” Match this ...

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You eat every day, contemplating only digestion, not litigation. Yet there has been a steady stream of lawsuits over food since the earliest reported cases. Here are a few of more recent vintage, all from Virginia: 1. Buckshot in the ...

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Litigators say that trying a case means telling a story. Lots of lawyer movies follow a narrative arc up to a climactic closing argument. Some of the summations in this list of flicks caused fireworks, some landed with a thud. ...

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U.S. v. Batson and the cases that have followed that decision say that a lawyer can’t strike a potential juror based on race or gender. What reasons can a lawyer use? Here are 10 that worked in Virginia, taken from ...

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You don’t find all that many popular songs about lawyers or the law, but here are some tunes that hit the charts: 1. Lawyers in Love – Jackson Browne. (1983) (Has never been played at a two-lawyer wedding, so far ...

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These 10 legal words or phrases sound like they would mean one thing, but they actually mean another. 1. Tortfeasor. Sounds like it would mean: Name of an ’80s big-hair metal band. As in: Anthrax…Ratt…Dokken…Slayer…Survivor…Tortfeasor. Really means: The bad guy ...

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These 10 legal words or phrases sound like they would mean one thing, but they actually mean another. 1. Tortfeasor. Sounds like it would mean: Name of an ’80s big-hair metal band. As in: Anthrax…Ratt…Dokken…Slayer…Survivor…Tortfeasor. Really means: The bad guy ...

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The following 10 people earned a law degree but moved into a different line of work instead of law practice: 1. Tony LaRussa Manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. Law degree from Florida State. 2. Steve Young Hall of Fame ...

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