As civil or criminal litigation winds down in a Virginia circuit court or U.S. District Court, the jury’s or judge’s decision...

June 11, 2021 Celebrating forty years to the day since I was sworn in as an attorney in Virginia. I am still going strong, too! I'm...

Norman Thomas, Owner and Attorney at Norman A. Thomas, PLLC, has been selected to the 2021 Virginia Super Lawyers list in Appellate Law....

Every trial attorney knows the feeling. The trial court makes a ruling that effectively guarantees that your client or clients will...

I am proud and happy to acknowledge my 2020 selection as a Virginia Business Magazine Legal Elite in Appellate Law. As with my selection...

I am very pleased to announce that my appellate practice law firm, Norman A. Thomas, PLLC, has been selected for 2021 recognition by Best...

Please share in my happiness! I am proud and honored to be twice-recognized by Best Lawyers in America for 2021 in Appellate Law. The...

In a unanimous decision significant to Virginia tort law, on June 4, 2020, the Virginia Supreme Court published its opinion in Green v....

I am pleased to announce that for 2020, Super Lawyers once again recognized me in Appellate Law. I bring nearly forty years of...

The most fundamental changes to Virginia's appellate justice system since 1985 are afoot. During its 2020 Session, the General Assembly...

I am pleased and honored to announce my selection again this year by Virginia Business Magazine as a "Legal Elite" in Appellate Law. ...

There is nothing quite like an old-fashioned legal battle over a parcel of valuable land. Add to it the sorting-out of lien priorities,...

I am delighted to announce that Best Lawyers selected me for 2020 recognition in Appellate Law. I am very pleased and honored by this...

The Virginia Supreme Court recently decided Fairfax County School Board v. S.C., 2019 Va. LEXIS 49 (Record No. 180497, May 30, 2019). ...

I am pleased to announce that Super Lawyers selected me to join that organization's ranks for 2019 in Appellate Law! I am honored by...

The Court of Appeals of Virginia released a soon-to-be published panel decision on January 8, 2019, in Kimberly Paul Barney v....

On October 11, 2018, the Virginia Supreme Court unanimously decided Nicholas Charles Secret v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 2018 Va. LEXIS...

On September 10, 2018, the Virginia Supreme Court issued a Press Release inviting comments on two proposed procedural rules and...

On August 30, 2018, the Virginia Supreme Court issued an instructive and unanimous decision in City of Alexandria v. State Corp. Comm'n,...

On March 1, 2018, the Virginia Supreme Court issued a soon-to-be published opinion in the case, A.R.A. v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 2018...