188 ABA Journal West Virginia articles.
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 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 CSTNJ Lawyer, 2 Affiliated Debt Collectors, Agree to $7.9M Settlement With AG of W.Va.
Magistrate’s $79M Powerball Win Is Also a Windfall for His ‘Fearless and Fair’ Predecessor
Oops. Juror Calls Defendant Guilty on Facebook, Before Verdict
Ex-Lawyer Avoids More Jail Time After Plea in Client Bat-Beating Case
W.Va. Governor Picks Lawyer, His Ex-GC, for Byrd Seat
Tennessee’s Allen Kopet Acquires W.Va. Firm, Grows ‘One State at a Time’
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Ex-Lawyer Accused of Collecting $132K from PD Service in Billing Scam
Attorney Charged with Arson & Attempted Arson in Law Firm Fires
Lawyer Accused of Beating Client with a Baseball Bat Accepts Plea Deal
Acquitted Client in Lawyer Home ‘Break-In’ Is Now Alleged Victim of Counsel’s Baseball Bat
Munchausen Mom Gets 40 Years in Death of 2-Year-Old Daughter
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