Lawyers -- Virginia

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...

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...

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The Ernest L. Folk papers is comprised of professional files, working files concerning consulting work; drafts, notes, etc., for articles; and a few folders regarding his home in Ivy. In addition, there are assorted teaching materials concerning law and the arts.

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Letter from Frank T. Glasgow (Law 1878), an attorney from Lexington, VA, to Frank Gilmer (Law 1878), a Charlottesville, VA, attorney.

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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.

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This collection contains the license to practice law issued to John Douglas Simms on 10 October 1808. It was signed by Archibald Stuart, Robert White Jr., and [? Holmes], judges of the General Court of Virginia.

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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).

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The records chiefly contain legal correspondence, financial and legal documents and bound folio volumes from the law firm of Perkins and Perkins, consisting of George Perkins and his son, W. Allan Perkins, 1903-1916.

In addition, some legal correspondence and documents represent the service of George Perkins as attorney for the City of Charlottesville, 1904-1916. There is very little personal correspondence or documents in these records.

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...

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This book of Thomas D. Ranson (Law 1868), a Staunton, VA, attorney, contains a name index in the front; numbered pages are headed by client name; dates are given in the left margin and action or activity described to the right of them. Entries cease after page 189.

Content Description The Watts family papers of Roanoke County, Virginia at "Oaklands" in Flat Creek, Campbell County) consist of correspondence and documents related to the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the United States Civil War, war with Osceola and Seminole tribes in Florida, Virginia politics, economic and social history (including enslavement),land ownership, farming, court cases and debt from 1786 to 1950 in southwest Virginia. The Watts are related to many other Virginia families including James...

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...