As the legal profession faces challenges due to emerging “legal deserts,” lower income Virginians are among the most impacted by a lack of affordable or available counsel. “The need for pro bono ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — 1 in 4 Virginians do not have ready access to an attorney because of where they live, according to a new report on widespread “legal deserts” in the Commonwealth. In ...

SALEM, Va. (WRIC) — An attorney from Salem had his license suspended by the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board for encouraging his client to lie in court. The Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board ...

A Salem attorney encouraged a client to falsely say she was sick in an attempt to have a court case postponed, the Virginia State Bar recently found in suspending his license for 10 months.

The Virginia State Bar is “an agency of the Supreme Court of Virginia” with an explicit mission: "(1) to protect the public, (2) to regulate the legal profession of Virginia, (3) to advance access to ...

The Virginia State Bar's standing committee on unauthorized practice of law stopped conducting undercover investigations years ago out of concern that the practice might violate ethical constraints ...