Managing change in the workplace
May 28, 2008
Arlington: Buying a foreclosed house
May 15, 2008
A long trip for a short meeting
May 14, 2008
People who filed for bankruptcy in the Danville area and far Southwest Virginia now have to travel farther – as much as 86 miles farther – to attend short and simple trustees’ meetings. In Danville, the reason appears to be a battle between the General Services Administration, which manages office space, and the Department of […]
Fired CFO gets copies of all documents he wrote
May 14, 2008
A former chief financial officer who sued after being fired is entitled to copies of all documents he authored, received and reviewed or had access to while he worked at the company.
The Supreme Court of Virginia has never addressed this issue of civil procedure and evidence law, the judge noted.
In Rush v. Sunrise Senior Living […]
Electronic access to land records moving forward
May 14, 2008
The goal of remote electronic access to circuit court land records goes back more than a decade.
Such access has been a reality in at least limited form for jurisdictions such as Fairfax County for almost that long. Those early efforts were based on a subscription to a system dedicated largely to a specific circuit court […]
Fairness should guide the firing process
May 14, 2008
Juries who are called upon to hear wrongful termination cases almost uniformly express confusion about the jury instructions they receive on how to apply the discrimination laws to the facts presented in a case. It is not uncommon to hear jurors say that their decision in such a case hinged on whether or not the […]
Employers: Revisit your Family Leave policies
May 14, 2008
In January, President Bush signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2008. Among other things, the NDAA amends the Family Medical Leave Act to permit a “spouse, son, daughter, parent, or next of kin” to take up to 26 weeks of leave to care for a member of the Armed Forces, including […]
Business groups compromised on new environmental permits
May 14, 2008
Environmental groups lobbying at the 2008 General Assembly session managed to block a business-backed effort to undercut Virginia’s citizen environmental boards, but the resulting compromise will bring changes to the state’s environmental permit process.
Both sides hailed the outcome of negotiations, which produced some restrictions on the discretion of citizen boards but also opened the door […]
Making contact with a company’s ex-employee
May 14, 2008
An employee claims she was fired when male coworkers were kept on after comparable misconduct.
Her lawyer wants to talk to the employer’s former human relations manager about what happened.
Under Virginia rules, a defendant employer can’t necessarily stop the lawyer from talking to the ex-HR manager. But there are limits to what they can talk about […]
The coming fight over nursing home arbitration agreements
May 14, 2008
Despite recent national attention to the issue of patient arbitration agreements, Virginia so far has avoided legal controversy over the efforts by some medical providers to keep disputes over medical care out of the courts.
In 2004 and again in 2005, Virginia circuit judges rejected efforts by nursing homes to force medical malpractice claims into binding […]
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