Law

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.

After one of its namesakes left for his own practice, a local law firm brought up another longtime attorney and also added to its other staff.