185 ABA Journal West Virginia articles.
A New Jersey lawyer and his two affiliated Pennsylvania debt-collection companies have agreed to cancel $7.9 million in charged-off debts, delete records of the claimed debts from the credit reports…
Nov 17, 2010 12:30 AM CST
After cashing in a $79 million winning Powerball ticket that left him with about $30 million after taxes, W. Randy Smith decided to step down from his job as a…
Sep 13, 2010 7:10 PM CDT
Updated: A Michigan juror who indicated in a Facebook post that she believed the defendant in her case is guilty—before the case went to verdict—wound up on the hot seat,…
Sep 2, 2010 7:28 PM CDT
A former West Virginia lawyer accused of beating a client with a baseball bat has been sentenced to one to five years of home confinement.
Joshua Robinson of Charleston, 38,…
Jul 29, 2010 11:53 AM CDT
West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin has picked his former general counsel to fill the Senate seat of the late Sen. Robert Byrd.
The Charleston, W.Va., lawyer, 36-year-old Carte Goodwin, will…
Jul 19, 2010 11:36 AM CDT
The sign on the office of Charleston, W.Va., law firm Francis, Nelson & Brison will be changing soon.
The seven-lawyer law firm has been acquired by Allen, Kopet & Associates,…
Jun 23, 2010 3:42 PM CDT
Jun 1, 2010 8:20 AM CDT
A disbarred lawyer has been charged with fraudulently collecting $132,000 from the West Virginia Public Defender Services by altering vouchers that had been signed by a judge.
William Duty, 59,…
May 20, 2010 3:37 PM CDT
A West Virginia attorney has been accused of setting fire in 2007 to the Martinsburg law firm at which she then worked and attempting to set another fire there in…
May 7, 2010 5:28 PM CDT
A suspended West Virginia lawyer set to go to trial on Monday for beating a client with a baseball bat has accepted a plea agreement.
Joshua Robinson pleaded guilty to…
Apr 20, 2010 1:18 PM CDT
A client initially accused of breaking into his legal counsel’s home in December and assaulting the attorney is now regarded by West Virginia authorities as the victim of an alleged…
Feb 26, 2010 4:02 AM CST
A woman who was convicted of child abuse in West Virginia and sentenced to one year in jail after she was caught on tape in a hospital trying to smother…
Feb 12, 2010 6:30 PM CST
A West Virginia prosecutor has been suspended for one month without pay for OK’ing a plea deal that permitted the victim to slap the defendant in exchange for dropping the…
Feb 11, 2010 10:32 PM CST
Members of the West Virginia Supreme Court appeared Tuesday at a state House Finance Committee hearing to object to the creation of a midlevel appellate court.
The judges asked lawmakers…
Feb 10, 2010 7:06 PM CST
Before going solo, Benjamin White worked as an associate attorney at Charleston, W.Va.-based Hendrickson and Long, specializing in social security law.
But while he was still there, a lawsuit filed…
Nov 11, 2009 5:35 PM CST
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