Virginia Lawyers Weekly articles from June 2003

Virginia Lawyers Weekly archives from June 2003

Virginia Lawyers In The News: June 2, 2003.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Laura Simpson Evick has become a partner with the Harrisonburg law firm of Clark & Bradshaw PC. Since joining the firm as an associate in 1996, Evick has practiced primarily in the areas of family law,...

Norfolk Federal Jury Awards Lawyer-Plaintif $35M Verdict Against eBay.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Matthew Philips A Norfolk federal jury last Tuesday handed down a $35 million patent-infringement verdict against online auction giant eBay. The plaintiff, a Northern Virginia lawyer, had claimed that eBay had used technology...

Judges, Lawyers Offer Virginia Grads Advice.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Paul Fletcher Two further waves of college and law school graduations across Virginia took place during the weekends of May 17-18 and May 24-25, with yet more legal and political figures tapped as graduation-day speakers. For...

U.S. District Court VA Eastern Case Summaries: June 2, 2003.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Personal Jurisdiction - RICO Claims Where plaintiff is suing defendants who allegedly engaged in a hostile takeover of the management of defendant company, designated by this...

52 Percent Pass The February Virginia Bar Examination.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Paul Fletcher The numbers are in for the candidates who took the Virginia bar examination in February 2003: Of the 494 people who took the exam, 256 passed, for a pass rate of 52 percent. Click here for the complete list of all...

Charlottesville Jury Tells TV Station To Pay $10M For Defamation.
June 2, 2003... Byline: John D. Tuerck A Charlottesville jury has awarded $10 million to a Stanardsville man who said that a television station defamed him by reporting that he had crack cocaine in his home and at his business. The man, Jesse...

Error Doesn't Impact Virginia Bar Exam.
June 2, 2003... Byline: John D. Tuerck Through absolutely no fault of their own, the members of the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners almost had a very bad day earlier this spring. On Monday, May 5, board members learned that there was an error in the...

Virginia Court of Appeals: June 2, 2003.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Fishery Regulation Amendment - Service Of Process - Sanctions A petitioner who sought review of amendments to fishery regulations, but who failed to observe the proper procedures...

Virginia Circuit Court Case Summaries: June 2, 2003.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Employment Contract - Noncompete - Shareholder Agreement A circuit court grants defendant cable services company a preliminary injunction against its former shareholder and employee, based on...

Verdicts & Settlements June 2, 2003: Criminal.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action -- Criminal Name of Case -- Commonwealth v. Donald Barrett Court / Case No. -- Arlington Circuit Court / CR03-166, CR03-190 Judge or Jury -- Jury Name of Judge --...

TV Station Sued Over Drug-Arrest Report.
June 2, 2003... Byline: John D. Tuerck A Charlottesville jury has awarded $10 million to a Stanardsville man who said that a television station defamed him by reporting that he had crack cocaine in his home and at his business. The man, Jesse...

Va. Court Of Appeals: Stopping Wife's Support May Require Use Of 'Magic Words'.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Deborah Elkins A husband can stop paying $5,000 in monthly spousal support after a wife's remarriage even though the couple's mediated agreement said that the wife's support "cannot be terminated for any reason," the en banc...

U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit Case Summaries: June 2, 2003.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Rights Property Seizures - Shooting Loose Dogs - Qualified Immunity Although the privately owned dogs belonging to four separate sets of plaintiffs are property protected by the Fourth...

U.S. District Court VA Western Case Summaries: June 2, 2003.
June 2, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Service Of Process - Inmate Suicide Where parents of a Connecticut prisoner housed in a Virginia prison are suing Virginia correctional officials in the death of their son by...

'A Failure To Cooperate' With Virginia State Bar Investigation.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Dawn Chase Message to lawyers: The stakes for ignoring a Virginia State Bar investigation became higher in April. That's when a Richmond lawyer who largely failed to respond to the VSB until the day of his Disciplinary Board...

Fairfax Circuit Judge Strikes Injunction With 'Perpetual' Hiring Ban.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Deborah Elkins An arbitrator's award can be overturned because its "perpetual injunction" against one company hiring the employees of another company is against Virginia public policy, a Fairfax Circuit judge has ruled. Under...

Virginia Man Is Awarded $3M In Suit Against Brokers.
June 9, 2003... Byline: John D. Tuerck An arbitration panel has ordered a brokerage firm to pay about $3 million to a Falls Church man who lost more than $1 million in high-risk investments in the stock market. The case is the latest in a number of...

Verdicts & Settlements June 9, 2003: SUV Rolls Over After Tire Separates.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action -- Product liability Other Useful Information -- The plaintiff was operating her SUV at highway speeds when the left rear tire tread separated and sent the vehicle into an...

Legislation To Step Up Regulation Of Virginia's Bail Bondsmen.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Matthew Philips Beginning July 1, Virginia's bail bondsmen will be operating under unaccustomed scrutiny. Legislation adopted during this year's session of the General Assembly will provide for greater oversight and regulation...

Historic Law Diploma Makes Return To Washington & Lee University School Of Law.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Paul Fletcher The Washington & Lee University School of Law now has the unique piece of its history back in Lexington - the school's only known original law diploma from the 1860s. Quick background history lesson: Following the...

Corporate Counsel Now Need Virginia State Bar Certification.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Dawn Chase Beginning Sept. 1, all corporate counsel in Virginia will be subject to the Virginia State Bar disciplinary system and have to pay bar dues, under a rule just adopted by the Supreme Court. The rule will affect...

U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit Case Summaries: June 9, 2003.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Admiralty Shipper Payment - Cargo Consolidator - Aluminum Shipment In a case of first impression in admiralty law, the 4th Circuit holds that where a shipper chooses to remit payment by way of...

U.S. District Court VA Eastern Case Summaries: June 9, 2003.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Removal - Notice Of Consent Where a defendant who did not join in a removal to federal court filed an answer within 30 days of service of the initial pleading, but did not file...

Virginia Court of Appeals: June 9, 2003.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Robbery - Firearm Use - Collateral Estoppel Where defendant allegedly acted with a companion to rob two men at gunpoint, with each robber allegedly taking the personal property of one...

Virginia Circuit Court Case Summaries: June 9, 2003.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Discovery - Handwriting Expert Notes A criminal defendant charged with embezzlement is entitled to disclosure by the commonwealth of writings and notes made by a handwriting expert...

Virginia Lawyers In The News: June 9, 2003.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Washington D.C. attorney Jack Olender received the Washington Bar Association's President's Award at a ceremony held at the National Council for Negro Women's Headquarters in Washington, D.C. ...

Vandeventer Black's King Swim Turns 20.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Matthew Philips Jack King loved to swim. A member of the Virginia Masters Swim Team, he was a superb short and long course swimmer and excelled at open, rough water swims. An attorney with the Norfolk-based law firm of...

Virginia Circuit Judge Attacked For Reducing Sentence.
June 9, 2003... Byline: John D. Tuerck A Pittsylvania County police investigator has publicly questioned a circuit judge's decision to sentence a convicted killer to life instead of following the jury's recommended death sentence. On Feb. 6, 2003, a...

U.S. Magistrate Judge F. Bradford Stillman Gets Most Backing For E.D. Seat.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Dawn Chase U.S. Magistrate Judge F. Bradford Stillman has been endorsed or recommended by four statewide bar groups to succeed U.S. District Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. in the Eastern District. Morgan has announced that he will...

Verdicts & Settlements June 9, 2003: Common Bile Duct Misidentified During Gall Bladder Operation.
June 9, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action - Medical malpractice Other Useful Information - The seven-person jury returned the verdict on May 22, 2003, against Dr. Barnwell Grayson, a physician at Southside Regional Medical...

Law, Equity In Virginia Court System: Together At Long Last?
June 16, 2003... Byline: Deborah Elkins Every year, Lynchburg lawyer Robert C. Wood III takes a break from his litigation practice to go back to the classroom. He takes the lessons he has learned from "close to 40 years" of practice, much of it trying...

Virginia Legal Obituary: Robert Jett Ingram Jr.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Robert Jett Ingram Jr. died June 5 at his home in Staunton. He was 46. A native of Maryland, he grew up in Pulaski. Mr. Ingram was a 1978 graduate of Washington & Lee University, with a double...

U.S. Supreme Court Case Summaries: June 16, 2003.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Parole Denial - Acquitted Conduct Although petitioner contends the U.S. Parole Commission violated his constitutional right by relying on criminal charges petitioner was acquitted of...

Richmond-based McGuireWoods to merge with large firm in Chicago.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Matthew Philips One of Virginia's biggest law firms, Richmond-based McGuireWoods LLP, has announced that it will merge with the Chicago-based firm of Ross & Hardies, effective July 1. The partners of the two firms voted...

Numerous New Court Fees Going Into Effect In Virginia.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Dawn Chase Lawyers and their clients will find themselves writing bigger checks to courts on July 1, when a slew of new or increased fees go into effect, mandated by the General Assembly. Court costs actually began increasing...

Virginia Women Attorneys Association makes endorsements for federal seat.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff The Virginia Women Attorneys Association has completed its endorsement process for candidates who hope to succeed U.S. District Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. in the Eastern District. Morgan has...

Virginia Legal Obituary: George Walter Mapp Jr.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Well-known Eastern Shore attorney George Walter Mapp Jr. passed away on April 28 at the Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md. He was 87. Considered to be the "Dean of the Bar" in...

Commentary: Everybody Likes Ike, OR States' Fights.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Editorial You think the recent brouhaha between Virginia and Maryland over water in the Potomac was something? Well, it was. But here's another fight between states that has made the...

Lawyers on their way to Virginia State Bar meeting warned about eating raw oysters.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff For all those lawyers on their way to Virginia Beach for the Virginia State Bar Annual Meeting this week, here's a sad but true reminder to be wary when dining out. A Northern Virginia man died...

Like urban cowboys, but with bows and arrows: Virginia city lets residents hunt deer in city.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Urban archers will be allowed to loose their arrows near homes in Martinsville after all under a revised plan to let residents hunt deer in the city with bow and arrow. The city council decided...

Virginia Lawyers In The News: June 16, 2003.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Charlottesville lawyer Edward B. Lowry, a principal in the firm of Michie, Hamlett, Lowry, Rasmussen & Tweel, LLC, has become a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Lowry, who began...

Virginia Supreme Court Case Summaries: June 16, 2003.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Practice Wrongful Death - Limitations - Personal Representative Where decedent's widow had not qualified as his personal representative at the time she filed a medical malpractice action...

Verdicts & Settlements June 16, 2003: Suit Claims CT Scan Misread.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action -- Medical Malpractice Other Useful Information -- The plaintiff's decedent, a 59-year-old female, presented to the emergency room at roughly 3 a.m. on Jan. 10, 2000 complaining of a...

Verdicts & Settlements June 16, 2003: 'Jerking' Maneuvers In Physical Therapy Lead To Paralysis.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action -- Medical Malpractice Other Useful Information -- The plaintiff was a 46-year old, left-hand-dominant male mortgage broker earning about $53,000 per year. In July 2000, the...

Verdicts & Settlements June 16, 2003: Teenager Injured On Ski Trip With Friends.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action -- Negligence Other Useful Information -- The plaintiff, an 18-year male from Fairfax, traveled to Ski Liberty with two friends for a weekend ski trip in December 2000. After a full...

Verdicts & Settlements June 16, 2003: Tractor Trailer Swerves Across Lane.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action -- Negligence Other Useful Information -- The plaintiff was struck by a tractor trailer which had crossed in to his lane of travel. The defendant driver alleged that an unknown...

Rules Proposed By Virginia Judicial Council For E-Filing Of Documents.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Paul Fletcher The Judicial Council's Advisory Committee on Rules of Court has proposed changes to the Rules of Court that would permit the electronic service of documents. If approved, the amended rules would allow consenting...

U.S. District Court VA Eastern Case Summaries: June 16, 2003.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Rights Schools - IDEA - State Administrative Review In this lawsuit filed by an advocacy group that is challenging the Fairfax County school system's educational placement of certain...

Virginia Court of Appeals Case Summaries: June 16, 2003.
June 16, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Cocaine Possession - Intent To Distribute Although police found no cell phone, pager or money on defendant when they seized the 12 individually packaged bags of rock cocaine from the...

Arlington's Smith Gains G.P. Award.
June 23, 2003... Byline: John D. Tuerck At a stage in life when most lawyers are looking back at their careers, Arlington lawyer Kenneth McFarlane Smith is looking ahead. With a busy practice, regular stints as a substitute judge and leadership...

Insurance Interview Is Subject To Discovery, Rules Prince William County Circuit Judge.
June 23, 2003... Byline: John D. Tuerck A Prince William County circuit judge has ruled that a car-crash plaintiff may obtain a transcript of the interview given by the defendant to his insurance company shortly after the crash. The ruling is the...

Virginia Circuit Court Case Summaries: June 23, 2003.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Contract Arbitration - Payment Bond A subcontractor must arbitrate its claim for payment by the general contractor on a project involving the Leesburg Town airport, where the subcontractor...

Verdicts & Settlements June 23, 2003: Diabetic Patient With Chest Discomfort Not Given EKG.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action -- Medical Malpractice Other Useful Information -- The patient was a 59-year-old insulin-dependant male who was treated as defendant medical center on four occasions: Nov. 29, 2000,...

Verdicts & Settlements June 23, 2003: Ice Cream Store Customer Assaulted By Employee.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action -- Sexual Assault / Negligent Retention Other Useful Information -- The plaintiff, a customer at the Dairy Queen in Ashland, was accosted by an employee during working hours. While...

Verdicts & Settlements June 23, 2003: Motorist Traveling Late At Night Without Headlights.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action -- Automobile accident / DUI Other Useful Information -- The defendant was traveling in the plaintiff's lane without his headlights on. The accident occurred at approximately 10 p.m....

Verdicts & Settlements June 23, 2003: Auto Forced Off The Road By Tractor Trailer.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action -- Negligence Other Useful Information -- The plaintiff was forced off the road by a John Doe tractor-trailer who was in the process of changing lanes. There was no contact between...

'Constructive Discharge' Claim Can Go Forward, Rules Virginia Beach Circuit Judge.
June 23, 2003... Byline: John D. Tuerck Three women may maintain their constructive discharge claim against their former employer, a restaurant, a Virginia Beach circuit judge has ruled. The women contended that a co-worker at the restaurant behaved in...

Developer Had 'Vested Rights' Under New Test, Rules Supreme Court Of Virginia.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Deborah Elkins Although a city's adoption of a Uniform Development Ordinance changed the zoning of a developer's property from residential to commercial, the developer had "vested rights" in the residential classification, the...

American National Lawyers Insurance Reciprocal Is Ordered Into Liquidation.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Dawn Chase Lawyers who bought their legal malpractice insurance from American National Lawyers Insurance Reciprocal are receiving notices that the company has been ordered into liquidation. The Chancery Court of Davidson...

Two Richmond Lawyers Disciplined For 'Let's Settle' Ads.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Dawn Chase Two lawyers with the Richmond-based personal injury firm Marks & Harrison violated the Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct when they signed off on several advertisements for the firm, a Virginia State Bar district...

U.S. District Court VA Eastern Case Summaries: June 23, 2003.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Admiralty Jones Act - Seaworthiness - Maintenance & Cure A crew member on a scallop boat who was injured during an altercation with another crew member may proceed with his claims for Jones...

U.S. District Court VA Western Case Summaries: June 23, 2003.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Rights Prison Conditions - Inmate Assault Defendant correctional officials win summary judgment in a 42 U.S.C. Sect. 1983 suit filed by an inmate who alleges prison officials failed to...

Verdicts & Settlements June 23, 2003: Fire At Self-Storage Facility.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action - Negligence Other Useful Information - This was an action for negligence and breach of lease against the tenant of a self-storage facility in Prince William County. The evidence...

Verdicts & Settlements June 23, 2003: Peanut Shells On Floor Of Restaurant.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action -- Negligence Other Useful Information -- The plaintiff was a 42-year-old female who had gone to Logan's to have lunch with her co-workers. She slipped and fell while at the...

Local, Specialty Bars Are Honored By Virginia State Bar.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff The Virginia State Bar's Conference of Local Bar Associations holds an Awards of Merit Competition each year to recognize outstanding public service projects conducted by local and specialty bars...

U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit Case Summaries: June 23, 2003.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Habeas Corpus - Timely Petition - Enhanced Federal Sentence - Invalidated State Conviction A petitioner who was convicted of two federal crimes and received an enhanced sentence as a...

New Tool For Attracting Clients To Law Firm Websites.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Lawyers Weekly is announcing the launch of a new product that law firms will use to attract clients to their websites: Legal NewsLinks. The new Legal NewsLinks Service automatically sends...

Virginia Court of Appeals Case Summaries: June 23, 2003.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Liquor License - Due Process The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board's suspension of a convenience store's alcoholic beverage license is upheld despite the store's...

Verdicts & Settlements June 23, 2003: Abdominal Lesion Misdiagnosed As Benign.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action - Medical malpractice Other Useful Information - The patient, 25, underwent surgery for chronic lower-abdominal pain. During surgery, a suspicious lesion was removed and sent to...

Verdicts & Settlements June 23, 2003: Tractor Trailer Slams Into Car, Drags Vehicle.
June 23, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action -- Negligence Other Useful Information -- The plaintiff was traveling on Interstate 95 in Fairfax County. A fully loaded tractor-trailer changed lanes and slammed into the...

Lynchburg Lawyer Renae Reed Patrick Is 2003's Legal Aid Lawyer Of The Year.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Deborah Elkins Lynchburg lawyer Renae Reed Patrick received the 12th annual Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year at the Legal Aid & Pro Bono Luncheon held as part of the Virginia State Bar Annual Meeting June 20. Patrick currently...

Alexandria Lawyer Bernard J. DiMuro Looks Back At His Year As VSB Head.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Dawn Chase When Alexandria lawyer Bernard J. DiMuro took the oath as Virginia State Bar president last year, one of his goals was to educate the nonlawyers in the General Assembly about judicial independence. A year before,...

Corporate Officer May Testify On Land Value, Rules Goochland County Circuit Judge.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Deborah Elkins A corporation seeking compensation for its land that has been condemned is not precluded from having a corporate officer testify as to the value of that land, a Goochland County Circuit judge has ruled. The...

Service One Day Late, Med-Mal Claim Struck By Roanoke Circuit Judge.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Paul Fletcher A Roanoke circuit judge has dismissed the lawsuit of an injured woman who did not contact her lawyer until four days before the deadline for making service on the defendants. The Rules of Court and the Virginia...

U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit Case Summaries: June 30, 2003.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil Rights Voting Rights - Congressional Redistricting - Md. Law - 'Bizarre' Shape In this case of first impression before the 4th Circuit, the court holds that a Maryland plaintiff cannot...

Verdicts & Settlements June 30, 2003: Elbow Fractured In Fall On 'Black Ice'.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action -- Negligence Other Useful Information -- The plaintiff slipped on black ice in a parking lot owned/managed by one defendant and maintained by the other defendant. As a result of her...

Richmond Attorney Louis A. Mezzullo Honored With DeMallie CLE Award.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Matthew Philips Richmond trusts & estates attorney Louis A. Mezzullo received the Gardner G. DeMallie, Jr. Continuing Legal Education Award at the Virginia State Bar Annual Meeting June 20. Named in honor of the late assistant...

Benzinger Honored By Virginia State Bar As Top Local Bar Leader.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Matthew Philips The Virginia State Bar's Conference of Local Bar Association has named Mary M. Benzinger of Arlington as its Local Bar Leader of the Year for 2003. The annual award recognizes past and presently active leaders...

Reciprocal Of America Declared Insolvent By Virginia State Corporation Commission.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Dawn Chase Reciprocal of America, once a dominant hospital insurer and the reinsurance backbone of Virginia's largest legal malpractice carrier, has been declared insolvent by the State Corporation Commission. The declaration...

Judicial Council Of Virginia Considers Uniform Pay For Interpreters.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Dawn Chase Foreign-language interpreters in state courts may for the first time be subject to a statewide payment schedule, under proposed guidelines under consideration by the Judicial Council of Virginia. Until now, payments...

Virginia Circuit Court Case Summaries: June 30, 2003.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative Child Abuse Finding - Cup Throwing Under the strict and narrow standard for judicial review of administrative findings of child abuse, the circuit court cannot overturn the...

Verdicts & Settlements June 30, 2003: Bile Duct Severed During Surgery.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action -- Medical malpractice Other Useful Information -- In April 2001, the plaintiff, 31, went to her local emergency room complaining of right upper quadrant pain. An ultrasound revealed...

Verdicts & Settlements June 30, 2003: Minor Sexually Assaulted.
June 30, 2003... Byline: Virginia Lawyers Weekly Staff Type of Action -- Tort / Negligence Type of Injuries -- Sexual assault of minor female Name of Case -- Confidential Court / Case No. -- Confidential Judge or Jury -- Mediation ...

Top 'Young Lawyer' Gives Back To Community.
June 30, 2003... Byline: John D. Tuerck For most young big-firm associates, the dual demands of the years-long effort to make partner while raising a family are plenty; few can carve out large chunks of time to pursue demanding volunteer work. Richard...