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Summer associate pay strong
By Peter Vieth
June 9, 2008
The pay and hiring rates for summer associates at major Virginia law firms remain strong and steady, according to an exclusive survey by Virginia Lawyers Weekly. Many major law firms are hiring as many or more summer associates in 2008 as they did a year ago. For the most part, they are paying them the […]
Company ordered to pay fees of $78K
By Alan Cooper
June 9, 2008
A Fairfax judge awarded $78,202 in attorneys’ fees last month after concluding that a company and its attorneys filed a counterclaim to intimidate an accounting firm that had filed a warrant in debt to collect a $7,055 obligation.
J. Chapman Petersen and John C. Bazaz, the attorneys for Tax Accounting & Payroll Services Inc. (TAAPS), […]
VSB search panel backs Davis for bar counsel
By Alan Cooper
June 9, 2008
A Virginia State Bar search committee is recommending that Edward L. “Ned” Davis, an assistant bar counsel for almost 15 years, head the VSB’s disciplinary system.
The appointment of Davis as bar counsel, the formal title for the head of the VSB’s Professional Regulation Depart-ment, is subject to approval by the attorney general and the VSB […]
Roanoke jury awards $3.5M for negligent bunion surgery
By Peter Vieth
June 9, 2008
A Roanoke jury has delivered a $3.5 million verdict for a woman who claimed she was disabled by negligent bunion surgery. The plaintiff, a Clifton Forge resident, blamed her podiatrist for chronic pain so severe that an orthopedist amputated her toes in an unsuccessful effort to relieve the pain.
A review of recent outcomes in podiatric […]
Lawyer has defamation claim for online post
By Deborah Elkins
June 9, 2008
A lawyer can sue an Internet poster for defamation for suggesting the lawyer should be turned into bar disciplinary authorities, even though the online poster claimed he was just offering an opinion.
In Cretella v. Kuzminsk (VLW 008-3-210), U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer re-fused to dismiss defamation claims filed under Virginia law by a Maryland […]
Discipline cases arise in SW and Northern Virginia
By Peter Vieth
June 9, 2008
Details are slowly coming to light about the charges against the latest of a crop of Virginia lawyers accused of major misdeeds. One Southwest Virginia lawyer allegedly passed off phony legal documents to cover for work he did not do, while a former Northern Virginia attorney is accused of settling cases without the clients’ […]
Web site instruction manual: RSS feeds, jobs and us
By Paul Fletcher
June 9, 2008
Seventh in a series of articles on how to use to the new Virginia Lawyers Weekly Web site.
This installment of the Virginia Lawyers Weekly Web site training manual is the last. Next week, we will feature research hypotheticals to show some of the ways you can use the VLW site to perform legal research.
This week, […]
Goolsby corporations book in its third edition
By Alan Cooper
June 9, 2008
The third edition of “Goolsby on Virginia Corporations” has the same nuts-and-bolts focus as the previous versions of the treatise.
Any niggling question a practitioner might have about setting up a closely held corporation or even merging publicly traded Virginia corporations probably can be answered quickly by referring to the index or table of contents.
There is […]
Business lit book features two lawyers from Virginia
By Michael W. Smith
June 9, 2008
In 1999, I had occasion to review for Virginia Lawyers Weekly the result of a joint venture of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association and the West Group entitled, “Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts.”
The editor-in-chief for this project was Robert L. Haig, a trial lawyer in New York City. Included among […]
Obituaries
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
June 9, 2008
William C. Battle
CHARLOTTESVILLE—William C. Battle, a retired lawyer, businessman and diplomat, died May 31 at the U.Va. Medical Center after suffering a stroke the previous day. He was 87.
Mr. Battle was the son of former Virginia Gov. John S. Battle and ran unsuccessfully for governor himself in 1969, when he lost to Linwood Holton.
A graduate […]
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