The Virginia Appellate Lawyer’s Court of Appeals of Virginia Blog

Staying out of the trial court . . . once again.

Most who know me well, know that I spend as little time as possible in the trial courts — in fact virtually none. I managed to keep that...

An Unpublished Opinion Worth a Short Mention

Anthony Andre’s Mackey v. Commonwealth of Virginia, an unpublished opinion of the Court of Appeals released on January 26, 2021 deserves...

Summary and Analysis of Published Opinion of the Court of Appeals, January 26, 2021

Shaka Markel Long v. Commonwealth of Virginia. The lone published opinion from the Court of Appeals this week – the first in two weeks –...

Are you an “Attorney” or a “Lawyer”? Probably Both.

If you Google the difference between the terms “lawyer” and “attorney” you will get any number of websites with various explanations of...

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

The following essay is meant to demonstrate why we say that “Law students teach themselves the law; law school teaches them to think like...

Summary and Analysis of Published Opinions of the Court of Appeals, January 12, 2021

The first set of published opinions from the Court of Appeals of Virginia for 2021 includes its first reversal in a criminal case as well...

Why a Virginia Court of Appeals Blog?

The first question that will undoubtedly come to mind for those who have stumbled across (or, one may dare to hope, deliberately come to...

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