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VSB to Offer Bulk Dues Payments for Larger Law Firms and Organizations

Posted on 5/15/2024
The Virginia State Bar is now offering group billing to allow firms and other organizations that employ 10 or more attorneys to more easily pay their attorneys’ license fees.

  

Diamond C. Royster Receives 2024 Young Lawyer of the Year Award

Posted on 5/14/2024
The Virginia State Bar Young Lawyers Conference has named Diamond C. Royster of Pender & Coward as the R. Edwin Burnette Jr. Young Lawyer of the Year.

  

Circuit 21 to Hold Election for VSB Council

Posted on 5/14/2024
Beginning on May 16, and until May 23 at 11:59 p.m., active and in good standing Virginia lawyers in Circuit 21 are asked to vote for their Virginia State Bar Council representative.

  

Woods Rogers Vandeventer Black Receives 2024 Organizational Pro Bono Award

Posted on 5/9/2024
The VSB Access to Legal Services Committee has awarded Woods Rogers Vandeventer Black PLC the 2024 Frankie Muse Freeman Organizational Pro Bono Award.

  

Treyvon Jordan Receives Oliver White Hill Law Student Pro Bono Award

Posted on 5/9/2024
Treyvon “Trey” Jordan of the William & Mary School of Law class of ‘24 has been awarded the 2024 Oliver White Hill Law Student Pro Bono Award.

  

Volunteers Sought to Run for VSB Council Special Election for Circuit 21

Posted on 5/6/2024
Pursuant to the Bylaws of VSB Council, the Virginia State Bar will hold a special election to fill one vacancy in the 21st Judicial Circuit for VSB Council, the Bar’s governing body, in May 2024 for terms beginning July 1 through June 30, 2027.

  

VSB News May 2024

Posted on 5/2/2024
The VSB News monthly email was sent to all Virginia lawyers on May 2, 2024.

  

Local and Specialty Bar Associations Receive 2024 Awards of Merit

Posted on 5/2/2024
The Conference of Local and Specialty Bar Associations has recognized three projects completed by three individual bar associations and one multi-bar project with Awards of Merit.

  

Linda Choe Awarded 2024 Specialty Bar Leader of the Year

Posted on 4/30/2024
Linda Choe of the Office of Division Counsel at Fairfax County Public Schools has been awarded Specialty Bar Leader of the Year by the VSB Conference of Local and Specialty Bar Associations (CLSBA).

  

CPF Pays $182,165 on Seventeen Petitions

Posted on 4/29/2024
The Virginia State Bar Clients’ Protection Fund Board authorized payments totaling $182,165.64 in reimbursement to petitioners regarding nine Virginia attorneys at its February 1, 2024, meeting.

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