If you had made your way to Caplin Pavilion for the Lile Moot Court Semifinals on the 6th of this month, your primary takeaway would have been a greater and more intimate understanding of what good ...

For the second straight semester, the best bakers in Virginia, if not the wider Mid-Atlantic region and the universe, ...

Your third-grade teacher told you not to start a sentence with “and.” Your third-grade teacher was wrong, says Bryan Garner, the legal writing guru. [1] There’s no question that advocates and judges ...

Before I begin this review, I admittedly do not have any memory of watching any of the Paranormal Activity franchise. Perhaps I have, but at some point. But with horror movies, they tend to all blend ...

The further I’ve gotten into 1L, the more situations I’ve discovered that feel strikingly similar to the most notorious, frightening, and borderline distasteful horror movie clichés. So, in light of H ...

Complaint, submitted by Hortense H. Hoofington V, Esq. For too long, the great horses of Virginia and beyond have been oppressed by humanity and its lack thereof. Foxfield represents the worst nadir ...

Welcome to Hot Bench, and thank you for your time! Could you start by sharing your name, year, and hometown? Sure! My name is Mina Ghani, I’m a 1L, and I’m from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. I’ve heard ...

I grew up listening to legendary radio reporter Paul Harvey every afternoon. As the child of a single mother, my grandma played a significant role in raising my brother and I. Every day, my grandma ...

Tales abound of West Coast law firms and their liberal office dress codes. Law is a profession where tradition is a way of life, and the jeans-and-hoodie-clad West Coast attorney has undeniable allure ...

Welcome back 2Ls and 3Ls, and welcome home 1Ls! As everyone settles in (or back) to life in Charlottesville, the staff here at Virginia Law Weekly wanted to provide the community with some vital ...

It’s a bird . . . it’s a plane . . . it’s a perfectly spiraled football zooming across the Law School’s Holcombe Green Lawn, thrown by Henry Hughes ’27 straight to Jackson Trout’s ’27 hands! Yes, that ...

So, What Do Journals Actually Do? With the journal tryout officially complete, 1Ls are getting their first introductions to legal academia (and patiently awaiting the results of their efforts), 2Ls ...