The VLW Blog

What does it take for a dissatisfied divorce client to sue his lawyer? His own opinion may be enough.
A husband unhappy with the outcome of his case responded to his lawyer’s bill with a claim for legal malpractice. The lawyer said that without an expert witness, the client had no case.
The defendant, James Cottrell, raised […]

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Fairfax Circuit Judge Randy Bellows today upheld the constitutionality of a Virginia statute that governs how property rights are determined in a church split, in a case that has pitted the mainline Episcopal Diocese of Virginia against 11 breakaway congregations.
In an April 3 decision, Bellows said the division in the church was such that the […]

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Long before there were bloggers, there were preachers in pulpits charged with delivering momentous news.
Thus it was on July 17, 1776, that the Executive Council of Massachusetts took action to let colonists know that our nascent nation had severed its ties with England.
In order to broadcast the broadside, the council ordered that copies of the […]

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A former executive who said she was defamed by her job performance review has come up empty-handed, after winning one of the largest verdicts in 2005.
Cynthia Hyland had been with defense contractor Raytheon Corporation for 21 years and served as a senior vice president prior to being fired in 2003 after the business unit she […]

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Virginia’s largest circuit court, Fairfax County, has elected a new chief judge. On July 1, Judge Dennis J. Smith will be taking over from current Chief Judge Michael P. McWeeny, who has served as chief judge for the past six years.
An alumnus of Brooklyn College, Smith graduated from American University’s Washington College of Law. He […]

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