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Practice of law -- Virginia

 Subject

Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

A. J. Gustin Priest papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-79-5

Duke family law firm papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-79-6
Scope and Contents The Duke law firm papers include correspondence, case files, legal, insuarance, and financial records, as well as ledgers. The files provide extensive documentation of a small-town family practice. Since the insurance business and the Dukes's family business affairs were handled in the same office as the law practice, these files had remained with the legal files. The family correspondence found with these papers was transferred to Special Collections in Alderman Library. The...
Dates: circa 1820 - 1959

Ellen V. Nash papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-98-4
Scope and Contents These papers document Ellen V. Nash's career as a solo practitioner and include case files and law practice ledgers. Her legal work consisted primarily of trust and estates, insurance, divorce, adoptions, and real estate. Although she worked by herself most of her career, but had a partner, Alvin D. Edelson, in the 1970s and worked close to Bernard Chamberlain, lawyer and UVA alumni. Some of these papers suffered extensive water and mildew damage; in fact, a portion of the papers...
Dates: 1928 - 1990

Homan W. Walsh diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-78-5
Scope and Contents

This collection contains thirty-four handwritten diaries written by Homan W. Walsh, a Charlottesville lawyer, spanning the years 1930-1963. These diaries contain Walsh's daily plans and some observations on different topics.

Dates: 1930 - 1963

John W. Stephenson ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-85-8
Scope and Contents

This lawyer's ledger is divided into what appear to be client accounts, and some subdivisions titled: “Commissioner in Chancery,” Cash Account (General), Cash Account (Individual).

Dates: 1874 - 1886

Lewis Preston Collins papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-85-6

Neill H. Alford Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-90-3

R. Randolph Hicks case briefs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2016-04
Scope and Contents This collection contains 10 volumes (numbered I-VII and IX-XI) of briefs for cases in which R. Randolph Hicks participated. Two of the volumes pertain to the Stein, et al v. Morris, et al suit, related the Morris Plan banks. David Stein, a former client of Arthur J. Morris, sued him arguing that he had stolen the idea from him, but the court found against him. (Gunnar Trumbull, Consumer Lending in France and America. Credit...
Dates: 1895 - 1915

Aubrey E. Strode papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 3014
Scope and Contents Aubrey E. Strode (1861-1969,88 cubic feet) was a Virginia lawyer, state senator and eugenics advocate who drafted the Virginia sterilization law and brought Buck vs. Bell to the Supreme Court. This collection consists of his personal and professional papers concerning his family, law practice, army service, political and legislative activities as a member of the Virginia Senate, the Virginia Democratic Party and the Progressive movement, and as a co-owner of the newspaper, The Amherst...
Dates: 1861-1969

William F. Long papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-88-3
Scope and Contents The practice of Long and Sadler, as documented in this collection, was characteristic of legal work in a small town in the early twentieth century. The cases are virtually all civil, primarily trusts and estates, real estate, insurance, torts, and divorce. From the earliest period of Long's practice, there are very few documents: one case file, two bound abstracts of title, and a ledger book dating from the early 1900s. After 1914, Long's time was apparently taken up primarily by his duties...
Dates: 1906 - 1967