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The Virginia State Bar (VSB) is the administrative agency of the Supreme Court of Virginia created to regulate, improve and advance the legal profession in Virginia. [2] Membership in good standing in the VSB is mandatory for attorneys wishing to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia. [ 3 ]
The VBA, (originally named the Virginia State Bar Association (VSBA)), was founded in July 1888 in Virginia Beach, under the leadership of Francis H. McGuire of the Richmond Bar Association. Its first president was William J. Robertson of Charlottesville.
For example, in Virginia, the Virginia State Bar is the mandatory organization and the Virginia Bar Association is voluntary. There are many bar associations other than state bar associations. Usually these are organized by geography (e.g. county bar associations), area of practice, or affiliation (e.g. ethnic bar associations).
Virginia State Bar, 421 U.S. 773 (1975), was a U.S. Supreme Court decision. It stated that lawyers engage in "trade or commerce" and hence ended the legal profession's exemption from antitrust laws. It stated that lawyers engage in "trade or commerce" and hence ended the legal profession's exemption from antitrust laws.
Virginia Bar can refer to either the Virginia Bar Association , a voluntary organization of lawyers, judges and law school faculty and students in Virginia Virginia State Bar , the administrative agency of the Supreme Court of Virginia
Bertha Louise Douglass (January 26, 1895 – February 29, 1980) was an American civil rights activist and lawyer who was the second African American woman admitted to the Virginia State Bar. [1] [2] [3]
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Virginia.It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
In 2015, Causey was named a "Leader in the Law" by Virginia Lawyers Weekly. [4] The same year she announced her bid for president-elect of the Virginia State Bar. [2] She ran unopposed, and in August 2017, Causey became the first African-American and first legal aid lawyer to serve as president of the bar association. [2] [1] [5]