When Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli II singles out a business publicly, it’s often because it’s on the wrong end of a lawsuit the state is pursuing. But the 115-lawyer legal department of Capital One Financial Corp. didn’t have to deal with a legal battle after an announcement last year from the attorney general.
Cuccinelli in January 2012 revealed that the McLean, Va.-based bank, which has 30 lawyers in the Washington area, had developed technology that matches volunteer attorneys with low-income clients in Virginia. The system, known as JusticeServer, was one of the major pillars of the Capital One legal department’s pro bono and community service efforts in 2012.
