Understanding Your Rights and Options Under Virginia Law
Here, our Fairfax legal team offers insight into a number of local legal topics, including criminal and traffic charges, personal injury, civil litigation, business disputes, and more. Learn what these cases can mean for you and your family, and how the experienced lawyers at Greenspun Shapiro PC can help.
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Why You Should Not Text About Criminal Activity The Virginia Lawyers Weekly reported on a man who sent a text to a Fairfax County Police Officer that he had marijuana for sale. Here's two things to learn. -
Search Warrant Needed To Obtain Cell Tower Location History The Supreme Court recently ruled in Carpenter v. United States that authorities must obtain search warrants before obtaining cell tower location history data. -
Robot Lawyers Are on the Horizon AI technology is a fast-growing area that is generating a lot of debate which leads one to wonder whether human lawyers will soon be replaced by robot lawyers. -
How Investigators Build Cases For Online Crimes Against Minors Investigators use several tactics to track down illegal online activities such as solicitation and child pornography-related offenses. Misha Lopez discusses them here. -
Be Careful What You Say About Police Officers For years, the use of in-car and body cameras by police has long been debated. Misha Lopez shares a story of a woman who falsified a story about the arresting officer and what we can all learn from it. -
Police Use Fitness App to Locate and Charge Suspect The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office recently announced that it located and arrested a cyclist accused of striking another cyclist on the head on the Washington & Old Dominion trail by using Strava, a popular fitness app. -
Greenspun Shapiro Wins CAIR Pro Bono Award Jonathan Shapiro was honored by CAIR, the Capital Area Immigration Rights Coalition, with its Impacting Justice Award for his pro bono immigration work. -
Privacy Implications of Using Genealogy Websites If you use a DNA testing service in which you voluntarily provide a DNA sample, you should first consider the privacy implications of doing so and carefully review the service’s privacy policies. -
How Does Attorney-Client Privilege Actually Work? If you've been following the recent news, you have probably heard discussions about “attorney-client privilege,” its scope, and the exceptions to that privilege. With the news fixated on the Michael Cohen and the seizure of documents by the FBI, this topic will likely stay front and center for some time. -
Marijuana Laws: D.C., Maryland, and Virginia Laws The marijuana laws in the Washington metropolitan region can be tricky. For example, what happens if you live in Maryland, buy marijuana in D.C., and then visit Virginia where you are stopped and charged with a possession offense? Here we discuss marijuana possession in Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.