Mental health records released today for the gunman who massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech in April 2007 before killing himself show that he was never treated by the school’s…
Under traditional legal standards, a pet owner entitled to damages over the death of an animal gets only what it would cost to buy another pet from a breeder.
Upping the ante in a rash of admitted or alleged embezzlements by law firm administrators recently, a former bookkeeper has been accused of stealing $150,000 from a Virginia Beach legal…
Prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia are competing to prosecute accused high-profile terrorists housed at Guantanamo, but local leaders in Alexandria, Va., have…
Three sailors in the controversial Norfolk Four case have won their freedom, with aid from three law firms working pro bono on the matter for the last five years.
Following news last week that the long-missing mental health file had been found for the gunman who massacred 32 people in a 2007 shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, injured survivors…
A missing file for the gunman who killed 32 people in a 2007 shooting rampage at Virginia Tech has been discovered in the home of a former director for the…
Legal novelist John Grisham is writing a screenplay about the “Norfolk Four” who were convicted in the rape and murder of a Virginia women based on confessions they said were…
For years, the state attorney general’s office in Virginia has distributed letters to former jurors in capital cases, cautioning them against talking to defense lawyers working on appeals.
Washington, D.C., patent lawyer Matthew Pequignot did some investigating after spotting patent markings on the lid to his daily cup of coffee and discovered that the patent had actually expired…
Even as 43-year-old Anna Howell pleaded guilty to money laundering and mail fraud in federal court in Virginia yesterday, the former secretary and bookkeeper for Jessee & Read appeared upbeat.
In an unusual award of attorney fees to a prevailing defendant in a civil rights case, a federal court said a Muslim family whose Virginia home was lawfully searched had…
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