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In a 2-1 decision, the Virginia Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a legal-malpractice action against an attorney hired to file a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition as being time-barred, finding ...

The cap on awards for malpractice lawsuits in Virginia will go up $50,000 a year for the next 20 years, following a recent compromise between trial lawyers and physicians in the Commonwealth.

Last week, in Sere v. Trapeni, the Virginia Supreme Court handed down a very interesting opinion in a legal malpractice appeal. The Court provided important guidance on when a court’s previous rulings ...

The Virginia Court of Appeals reinstated a pro se defendant's legal malpractice suit against his attorney who represented him in an underlying trial that left him serving almost a decade in prison for ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...