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An embattled Roanoke lawyer, who owes a former client more than $742,000 from a malpractice verdict, saw a lengthy suspension of his law license this week following a Virginia State Bar hearing. Attorney Charles “C.J.” Covati will not be allowed to practice law in Virginia for 3½ years, according to a settlement approved by the bar disciplinary board during a virtual hearing Monday. Covati “Mr. Covati actually endorsed an agreed disposition that basically admits to everything in the certification,” a summary of his case, assistant bar counsel Paulo Franco said at that meeting. Covati, 54, was admitted to the state bar in 2002 and has worked as an attorney in the Roanoke Valley ever since. In the past he served as a substitute judge in local courts and, in 2016, asked to be considered for a Roanoke General District Court judgeship but wasn’t appointed.

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