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The Patrick Henry Building is a historic building located in Richmond, Virginia.Formerly designated simply as the Old State Library or the Virginia State Library and Archives and Virginia Supreme Court, it was renovated, then rededicated and renamed for the Founding Father and former Virginia Governor Patrick Henry on June 13, 2005.
The Virginia Library Association (VLA) is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is "to develop, promote, and improve library and information services, library staff, and the profession of librarianship in order to advance literacy and learning and to ensure access to information in the Commonwealth of Virginia."
It serves as the archival agency and the reference library for Virginia's seat of government. The Library moved into a new building in 1997 and is located at 800 East Broad Street, two blocks from the Virginia State Capitol building. It was formerly known as the Virginia State Library and as the Virginia State Library and Archives.
First female to practice before the Virginia Supreme Court: Mildred Callahan in 1923 [2] First African American female: Lavinia Marian Fleming Poe (1925) [7] First African American female (full-time government attorney): Alda White [8] First African American female (major law firm partner): Jacquelyn Stone in 1994 [9]
A law library is a special library used by law students, lawyers, judges and their law clerks, historians, and other scholars of legal history in order to research the law. Law libraries are also used by people who draft or advocate for new laws, e.g. legislators and others who work in state government , local government , and legislative ...
Court opinions from the Supreme Court of Virginia; Local ordinance codes from Public.Resource.Org; Case law: "Virginia", Caselaw Access Project, Harvard Law School, OCLC 1078785565, Court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law Library
In 2016, the Library of Virginia and Dominion Power honored him as one of their Strong Men and Women in Virginia History. [7] Regent University School of Law hosts an annual moot court competition which bears Chief Justice Hassell's name in his honor. The competition's 20th anniversary took place in October 2020.
The University of Virginia School of Law (Virginia Law) is the law school of the University of Virginia, a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia.. Founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 as part of his "academical village", and now a UNESCO World Heritage site, each class in the three-year J.D. programme contains approximately 300 students.