Law

Reaching into the Northern Virginia market, a local law firm has merged with a company in Tysons Corner, while one of its own attorneys starts his own practice and a personal injury firm expands into Harrisonburg.

Turning his eye toward the increasingly popular airborne tech, a local lawyer has spotted a new source of personal injury cases and is preparing with a new practice.

A former tax service firm principal from Northern Virginia was sentenced last week for a scheme to boost his own bonuses through the manipulation of the state tax system.

With the General Assembly about to start a new session, a senator is launching a second office of his Harrisonburg law firm with help from a local attorney.

Taking a similarly named Texas business to court over trademark infringement, a Carytown retailer is hoping a judge will put its “needs” ahead of the competition’s brand.

A co-founder of a longtime law firm is stepping back into full-time practice after more than 25 years as the company’s chairman, part of a larger plan to hand leadership over to the next generation.

Several well-known names in the local business community have been named as defendants in a recent lawsuit, in which a former engineering firm exec claims his ownership stake in a 700-acre riverfront property was wrenched away from him.

Dominion and two other local firms are chasing after the short-lived owners of a shut-down Hopewell ethanol plant, accusing it of skipping out on bills and abusing tax incentive programs.

The U.S. government has accused the two former owners of a defunct recycling company of abusing federal stimulus money, and the pair is expected to take the matter to trial.

In federal bankruptcy court this week, a lawyer accused a Southside church’s pastor of again trying to siphon off funds for the bankruptcy estate, impeding the organization’s from escaping Chapter 11.