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  • Long decline in jury trials may be over 

    The long decline in the number of jury trials in Virginia courts – civil and criminal – appears to have ended, according to the recently released 2009 State of the Judiciary report.
    The number of trials in both categories bottomed out in 2007 with 775 civil trials and 1,021 criminal trials. The number of civil trials [...]

  • Condo buyers can rescind their purchase 
    A decades-old law designed to prevent fraud in sales of Florida swampland has been used by a Northern Virginia couple to get out of their $1.6-million purchase of an undeveloped lot in a luxury gated club development.
    U.S. District Judge James C. Cacheris last month granted rescission to the buyers under the Interstate Land Sales Full [...]

  • Slip-and-fall plaintiff fighting to recover funds 
    A Roanoke lawyer whose client won a $3.1-million slip-and-fall verdict from a Richmond jury in May is battling on several fronts to recover funds for the injury.
    Gregory D. Habeeb won a default judgment against the corporate owner of the Holiday Inn Central in Richmond when the business failed to respond to the lawsuit filed by [...]

  • Kinser to be next chief justice
    The Supreme Court of Virginia has selected Justice Cynthia D. Kinser to be the first woman to serve as chief justice of the court.
    Kinser is third in seniority on the court to the current chief, Leroy Rountree Hassell Sr., and Justice Lawrence L. Koontz Jr. Hassell will step down on Jan. 31 after eight years [...]

  • VSB tries again on the use of undisclosed recordings 
    The Virginia State Bar’s Standing Committee on Legal Ethics is trying again to fashion a legal ethics opinion on the issue of undisclosed recordings to investigate and develop a case.
    Proposed LEO 1802 takes what the bar believes is a “moderate” approach to such tapings.
    In November 2006, the committee proposed a broader step to address undisclosed [...]

  • Dog law: A legal salute to man’s best friend 
    Here in the dog days of summer, it’s only appropriate to take a look at a body of cases, statutes and verdicts & settlements that rightly can be called “Dog Law.”
    Dogs have made their mark in the Virginia Code. There are 66 different statutes pertaining to pooches. For example, there are several code sections dealing [...]

  • Departing worker took docs, didn’t breach duty 
    Always try to get a noncompete and a nonsolicitation agreement from employees.
    That’s the take-away for small businesses in the wake of a recently dismissed business tort lawsuit in Fairfax Circuit Court.
    The case featured two small woman-owned businesses that were competing for government contracts.
    It had a mother who retired from the first business only [...]

  • Fee dispute suit spawns battle of ex-presidents 
    A fee collection lawsuit in Fairfax has turned into a battle pitting a former president of the Virginia Bar Association against a former president of the Virginia State Bar amid allegations of legal malpractice and overbilling.
    The Lewis Law Firm is a Virginia firm based in Washington; it is headed by Glenn C. Lewis, who led [...]

  • Law librarian at UR assumes national post 

    Law librarian Joyce Manna Janto knows where to keep her focus.
    As Deputy Director of the Law Library at the University of Richmond, Janto juggles all kinds of print and electronic resources. But she never forgets the end user who needs information, whether it’s a 1-L at the keyboard or a local lawyer in the library [...]

  • Death case after scooter-Hummer collision settles for $1.25M limits 

    When his wife Natalie hadn’t returned from a Saturday ride on her Honda Elite 250 scooter as soon as he expected, John Staff went to look for her.
    Barely three miles from his home in Chesapeake, he saw police cars and an ambulance at Cedar Road and Cedar Lakes Drive shortly after 1 p.m. on May [...]

| Date published: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:21:53 +0000
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