After more than two decades of distinguished service as a public defender in Loudoun County, Leesburg attorney Bonnie Hoffman is moving on to become the new “Director of Public Defense Reform and Training” for the National Association of Criminal Defense…

This month we would like to recognize Hopewell Girl Scout Troop 2, for their beautification and environmental stewardship work. These young women used their artistic talent to paint some of the storm drains near schools in Hopewell. These storm drains…

It is unfortunate that Golden State’s coach, Steve Kerr has had so much difficulty with a back injury procedure that is typically performed without complications.  In our law practice, each year we see clients with chronic neck and spine injuries…

A large percentage of automobile accidents include whiplash injuries. Whiplash is a layman’s term. It is more descriptive of the mechanism of injury than it is medically diagnostic. The sudden forward and backward jerking of the head in an automobile…

Every year around this time we celebrate national nurses week in honor of Florence Nightingale's birthday on May 12. Nurse Nightingale is known as the “founder of modern nursing” for the way she tended to wounded soldiers in unsanitary conditions…

Injury victims are not the only ones who suffer financial losses in personal injury cases. In many cases, their health insurers have to pay accident-related medical expenses. It should come as no surprise, therefore, when health insurance companies want to…

“For want of a comma, we have this case.” So begins the recent twenty-nine-page 1st Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the case of O’Connor v. Oakhurst Dairy. For those of us who lament the modern trend of omitting the…