Virginia Civil Procedure

Professor Kent Sinclair is Professor of Law Emeritus and has served as Associate Dean at the University of Virginia School Of Law, where he has taught Evidence, Civil Procedure and Virginia Practice for 35 years. Professor Sinclair served as a United States Magistrate Judge for seven years. He currently serves as Reporter of Decisions for the Supreme Court of Virginia, chair of the Advisory Committee on Rules of Court for the Commonwealth, and reporter for the Boyd-Graves Conference Evidence Project. He is a frequent lecturer on Virginia practice & procedure and the law of evidence to judges’ groups and lawyer CLE programs. He has served as an expert commentator for the LexisNexis legal research service, and has been accepted as an expert on Virginia law by the High Court of London, by the High Court of the Netherlands, and by the High Court of Australia. He is author of Sinclair on Virginia Remedies, and Personal Injury Law in Virginia. He is co-author of Sinclair & Middleditch, Virginia Civil Procedure, Friend & Sinclair, Virginia Pleading & Practice, and several other books. Professor Sinclair served for more than 20 years as editor and reporter for the four-volume Virginia Model Jury Instructions.

Leigh B. Middleditch, Jr., is an active member of the Virginia Bar and a partner in the firm of McGuire, Woods, Battle, and Boothe in Charlottesville. He formerly taught courses on Virginia procedure and business law at the University of Virginia. Mr. Middleditch was co-author of the first edition of Virginia Civil Procedure and has served as president of the Boyd-Graves Conference on Virginia Civil Procedure.