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Lawyers to high court: Please halt execution
By News in Brief
July 7, 2008
Lawyers for a Virginia man set to die this week for killing his 79-year-old neighbor have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution.
Kent Jermaine Jackson, 26, is scheduled to die by lethal injection July 10 for the 2000 death of Beulah Mae Kaiser, who was sexually assaulted, beaten and stabbed in her […]
W&L professor brings fraud suit against Virginia Lottery
By News in Brief
July 7, 2008
Washington and Lee University professor Scott Hoover has sued the state over what he says was fraud in sales of scratch-off lottery tickets.
Scott Hoover alleges in the suit filed in Richmond Circuit Court by Roanoke attorney John Fishwick, that the lottery has taken in “millions of dollars in sales of tickets falsely promising the […]
Roanoke Bar awards Kincannon scholarships to local students
By News in Brief
July 7, 2008
The Roanoke Bar Association has awarded five $2,500 James N. Kincanon scholarships.
The scholarship program was established by the Roanoke Bar Association Foundation in 1997 in recognition of James N. Kincanon’s 50-plus years as secretary-treasurer of the Association. Since its inception, the foundation has funded $76,600 in scholarships.
The 2008 recipients are:
• Aaron Bruce Cook, […]
Judge applies new high court case, dismisses charges against dentist
By News in Brief
July 7, 2008
A Pennington Gap dentist may be the first beneficiary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that limited what critics had contended was an expansive reading of the federal law on money laundering.
A jury convicted Dr. Roy Shelburne earlier this year of seven counts of money laundering, among other charges, in what the government alleged was […]
Lawyers who e-file in ED must provide identification
By News in Brief
July 7, 2008
Attorneys registered to file documents electronically in the Eastern District of Virginia must deliver or send by mail a form with their written signature and a photocopy of a government-issued photo identification to the clerk’s office in Alexandria.
If the form and photo are not submitted by the end of the month, the ECF login and […]
Hunton & Williams adds 8 lawyers from Akin Gump
By News in Brief
July 7, 2008
Hunton & Williams LLP beefed up its labor and employment practice and opened a San Francisco office last week by adding eight lawyers from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
Laura M. Franze, who practices from Dallas and Los Angeles, was co-chair of the practice area at Akin Gump and will join the Richmond-based […]
VSB Disciplinary Actions
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
July 7, 2008
On March 21, 2008, the Virginia State Bar Third District Committee, Section I, imposed a public admonition on Prince George lawyer Del M. Mauhrine Brown for missing jurisdictional deadlines in three cases before the Virginia Court of Appeals, which resulted in the cases being dismissed. According to the VSB, Brown violated the disciplinary rule that […]
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