74th President
2012–13 VSB President
Warren David Harless, of the Richmond firm Christian & Barton LLP, will be inaugurated as the seventy-fourth president of the Virginia State Bar for the 2012–13 bar year.
He has been a member of the VSB Council and Executive Committee. He has also chaired the Bench-Bar Relations Committee, served as a member of the Budget and Finance Committee, and served on the task force that established the Diversity Conference. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Virginia Law Foundation and a member of the Lewis F. Powell Jr. American Inn of Court, the Virginia Bar Association and its Boyd-Graves Conference, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, and the Bar Association of the City of Richmond, for which he served as its president in 1999–2000.
Harless, 55, is a partner in his firm’s litigation department, is head of the firm’s employment practice group, and serves on the firm’s executive committee.
Harless is married to the former Deborah Ann Young of Richmond. Between them they have five children ranging in age from 13 to 26.
Updated: January 12, 2012