Virginia Lawyers Weekly

Submit Your Verdicts & Settlements Online

You can now submit trial reports electronically for publication in a future issue of Virginia Lawyers Weekly. Virginia Lawyers Weekly publishes Verdicts & Settlements to help lawyers assess the value of their cases accurately. All information provided in Verdicts & Settlements submissions is subject to verification prior to publication. As a courtesy, we do not publish the name of the opposing counsel. Questions should be directed to Sarah Rodriguez at (800) 456-5297.

* = required for publication
** = required for publication, but may be withheld upon request.

Type of action:
Injuries alleged:
**Name of case:
**Court:
**Case #:
*Tried before:	Jury Judge Mediation N/A
*Name of judge:
Special damages:
*Verdict or Settlement?	Verdict Settlement Mediation Award
*Amount:
*Date of verdict or settlement:
Demand: (required if defense verdict)
Highest offer:
Most helpful experts: (name, title and city)
Insurance carrier:
*Attorney(s) for plaintiff (and city):
*Attorney(s) for defendant (and city):
*Person submitting report, **telephone, & fax:
*Description of the case, the evidence presented, the arguments made and/or other useful information:

Virginia Lawyers Weekly publishes "Verdicts & Settlements" to assist lawyers in judging the value of cases and to provide members of the bar with an additional practical resource unavailable elsewhere.

The information contained in these reports is generally provided by one of the lawyers in the case, although occasional reports may be based on court records and news reports. When the report is submitted by an attorney, the lawyer drafts the information under "Other useful information." Virginia Lawyers Weekly then edits that material for style, grammar, length, and, where appropriate, content.

To be published, a report must:

• Include the name of the case, the court name and docket number. If requested, Virginia Lawyers Weekly may, in appropriate cases, withhold this information from the published version - but the information must be provided to us initially so we can be sure that such a case did exist.
• Include the date of the verdict or settlement, the name of the judge, the amount of the verdict or settlement, and, if it is a defense verdict, the plaintiff's demand. This information cannot be witheld from publication.
• Include the names of the lawyers for all of the parties. As a rule, Virginia Lawyers Weekly withholds the name(s) of the lawyer(s) for the party who did not submit the report.
• Provide a description of the case to go under the "Other useful information" heading.