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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Box MSS 2011-01, Box 3

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Judge Williams Sample Rulings: Labor Law, Trademark, n.d.

 File — Box: MSS 2011-01, Box 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Papers of Judge Richard L. Williams (85 archival boxes, 34 linear ft.) were donated to the Law School in December of 2011. The documents portray his tenure as a Judge in the Eastern District of Virginia. There are also some personal documents that give us a glance of his personal life. The papers maintained their original organization: Chambers Manuals and Jury Instructions – Sample documents used in Judge Williams' chambers.Chrono Files – 1988–2010:...
Dates: n.d.
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections / Papers of Judge Richard L. Williams / Bench Books, Chambers Manuals and Jury Instructions

Judge Williams Sample documents: bench memorandum, memorandum opinion, findings of fact and conclusion of law, voir dire, summary, general verdict form, sentencing bench memorandum, special verdict form, bench memorandum, Fourth Circuit Court Memo, Fourth Circuit opinion, order of amendment, Judge’s grammatical corrections, 1990s

 File — Box: MSS 2011-01, Box 3
Scope and Contents

(2 folders)

Dates: Majority of material found in 1990s
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections / Papers of Judge Richard L. Williams / Bench Books, Chambers Manuals and Jury Instructions

Professional and personal correspondence between Judge Williams and fellow judges, primarily from the Eastern District of Virginia; clerks (“formers” as Judge Williams called his former clerks); family and friends, school children thank-you notes; correspondence with prisoners. Administrative memoranda from the Department of Justice, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia; United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; Judicial Conference of the United States, Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Also included are Judge Williams “memo[s] to the file” written following oral arguments of cases; Report of the Security Committee for the Eastern District of Virginia (4/17/1989), 1988-1989

 File — Box: MSS 2011-01, Box 3
Scope and Contents

(5 folders)

Dates: 1988-1989
Found in: Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections / Papers of Judge Richard L. Williams / Chronological Files (1988-2010)