185 ABA Journal West Virginia articles.
President Obama is so unpopular in West Virginia that a Texas inmate won about 40 percent of the vote in the state’s Democratic primary.
Keith Judd paid a $2,500 filing…
May 9, 2012 11:33 AM CDT
A lawyer for a West Virginia school principal says the public hasn’t learned the whole story in the prosecution of his client for forcibly ejecting a boy from a school…
Apr 19, 2012 11:50 AM CDT
The West Virginia Supreme Court has suspended for three years an attorney who overbilled a client by $135,878.68 while working for a Huntington law firm.
A partner of Baker and…
Mar 23, 2012 6:03 PM CDT
A second manager at Massey Energy Co. has been charged in connection with the 2010 explosion that killed 29 miners, and there could be more prosecutions ahead.
Former mine superintendent…
Feb 23, 2012 1:22 PM CST
The owner of a West Virginia mine that exploded in 2010, killing 29 men, will pay a record $209 million to resolve its criminal and civil liability concerning the disaster…
Dec 6, 2011 9:45 PM CST
A West Virginia lawyer was arraigned on six misdemeanor counts on Wednesday based on allegations he pointed a gun at rowdy party-goers.
Michael Shawn Santa Barbara, 52, of Martinsburg is…
Oct 20, 2011 1:48 PM CDT
Two West Virginia lawyers have been federally charged with wire fraud in unrelated cases concerning their alleged overbilling as court-appointed public defenders.
Jeremy Vickers, 36, allegedly billed for work days…
Sep 13, 2011 6:10 PM CDT
As a former corporate lawyer and bank chairman who still serves on the board of three other companies, A. Michael “Mike” Perry certainly knows how to wear a business suit…
Sep 13, 2011 1:17 AM CDT
CSX Transportation has expanded its claims against a Pittsburgh law firm that represented thousands of railroad workers filing asbestos suits through a fast-track system in West Virginia.
In a July…
Aug 1, 2011 3:35 PM CDT
Working several years ago at a law firm with a presence in Virginia, attorney Mary Binns-Davis saw firsthand how intensely the lawyers there felt about a two-week…
Jul 22, 2011 10:10 AM CDT
An administrative law judge who awarded Social Security disability benefits in every case he decided over a six-month period has resigned amid investigations into his conduct.
Judge David Daugherty of…
Jul 19, 2011 2:22 PM CDT
In less than three months, attorney Kenneth Ford has pursued some 22,000 copyright claims alleging peer-to-peer file-sharing violations, backing his Adult Copyright Company’s offer of “hardcore protection for hardcore content.”
…Dec 17, 2010 6:45 PM CST
A former office manager for a West Virginia lawyer has pleaded guilty to one count of perjury concerning an alleged $275,000 scheme to defraud the state public defender’s office for…
Dec 2, 2010 12:06 AM CST
The law, it seems, wasn’t working out financially for Buffalo, N.Y., attorney Michael W. Rickard II.
Earlier this year Rickard, 42, pleaded guilty to holding up two banks in Nashville,…
Nov 24, 2010 4:16 PM CST
Rejecting a disciplinary panel’s recommendation that the case against a longtime West Virginia lawyer be dismissed, the state supreme court has suspended the law license of Douglas…
Nov 18, 2010 6:11 PM CST
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