VA: Should public universities be able to hire own counsel?
Attorney General Jason Miyares opposes a bill to allow it, calling it a “beginning step of trying to turn our state universities — paid for with taxpayer dollars — more
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Attorney General Jason Miyares opposes a bill to allow it, calling it a “beginning step of trying to turn our state universities — paid for with taxpayer dollars — more
On Friday, Virginia Attorney General Miyares announced that Kentucky based attorney Cliff Iler has been appointed top lawyer for UVA.
The top lawyers at three public colleges in Virginia have left their jobs since Jason Miyares became attorney general, moves Democratic and higher education leaders say show Miyares using excessive
Legal experts say Jason Miyares’s decision to dismiss two university counsels so soon after his inauguration is unusual. What does it mean for the future of the state’s higher ed institutions?
Virginia attorney general Jason Miyares has fired the top lawyers at George Mason University and the University of Virginia, The Washington Post reported. Counselors for the two public universities are appointed by the attorney general. Tim Heaphy, former counsel for the University of Virginia, was on leave to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol