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Virginia Fraternity Hazing Wrongful Death: VCU Settlement, Adam’s Law, and Your Family’s Legal Rights If you are reading this page, someone you love may have been hurt or killed in a fraternity hazing incident at a Virginia university — or you are a parent who sensed danger and is searching before the worst happens. Either way, you are in the right place, and you are not alone. What happened to Adam Oakes at Virginia Commonwealth University on February 27, 2021, is not an isolated tragedy. It is the predictable outcome of a system that universities have known about for decades, and the fact that Virginia’s own legislature changed the law in response tells you exactly how preventable this was. We are a trial firm that handles fraternity and sorority hazing lawsuits — we are currently lead counsel in an active $10 million hazing case against a major university and a national fraternity — and this page exists to tell you what the law actually says, what the evidence looks like, how fast it disappears, and what your family needs to do right now. Everything here is the truth we would tell you across a kitchen table at two in the…