VLW reports that the Supreme Court of Virginia has elected Cynthia Kinser to serve as its next Chief Justice. Her term begins on February 1, 2011. The Court’s press release is available here.
Our heartiest congratulations go out to the Court’s first female Chief Justice for this richly deserved honor.
As longtime readers have
It’s time for another round of the increasingly bizarre searches that lead people to this blog, and our responses:
Rule 5:17, which governs petitions for appeal, includes a few important changes that practitioners should note.
First, Rule 5:17(c)(1) clarifies what you need to include in your assignments of error: Under a separate heading called “Assignments of Error,” the petition must list, “clearly and concisely without extraneous argument” the specific errors in the rulings below
Christina MacIsaac and David Gluckman have a fun article in the VADA‘s most recent Journal of Civil Litigation called, “Yes, They Matter: Recent ‘Commonwealth Cases’ Every Civil Practitioner Should Know.”
Their basic thesis is that civil litigators doing crunch research may have a tendency to gloss over criminal cases–but that they do so “at
Two minor changes in the new appellate rules have been generating way too much discussion (and far too many calls to the clerk’s office) here at the Firm on the Move (TM).
On the theory that you, dear readers, operate on the same plane of nerdliness that we inhabit, we now confront two of the