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Can’t Kick the Habit 0

The Regency ends officially on January 11, but it looks like Virginia’s addiction to magickal nicotine pills will continue for quite a while.

Through September, Virginia had been billed roughly $575,000 by several lawyers from different firms under open-ended contracts outgoing Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli authorized last year after withdrawing as counsel from related cases due to his own conflicts in the matter.

And in the waning days of McDonnell’s tenure, it’s unclear when those deals expire because the contracts binding them stipulate they “will continue” through an undefined completion point.

Afterthought:

When I went to college, I thought I wanted be a lawyer.

Then I got to know some law students . . . .

It is a truism that every lawyer is a crook until you need one (and, when I needed one, I’ve always found persons of integrity), but, really, now, open-ended contracts?

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