Legal Ethics
The Standing Committee on Legal Ethics meets regularly to consider attorneys’ formal requests for advisory opinions seeking guidance on legal ethics and the unauthorized practice of law as well as to analyze and debate proposals to amend the Rules of Professional Conduct and the Unauthorized Practice Rules. The committee adopts proposed advisory opinions or rule amendments for consideration by council and the Supreme Court of Virginia. The nine committee members are appointed by the president of the Virginia State Bar and may serve two consecutive three-year terms. The committee’s work may include other specific assignments or requests in its area of general responsibility from the bar’s officers, the Executive Committee or Bar Council. See the committee's full mission statement.
2021-22 Committee
| Dennis John Quinn, Esq. Chair |
Carr Maloney P.C. Tycon Towers 8000 Towers Crescent Dr Ste 1350 Tysons, VA 22182 |
202-310-5519 | 2022 / 2 |
| Michael Mackager York, Esq. Vice Chair |
Wehner & York, P.C. 11860 Sunrise Valley Dr Ste 100 Reston, VA 20191 |
703-476-8000 | 2022 / 1 |
| Vera Kathleen Dougherty, Esq. |
McGuireWoods LLP 101 W Main St Ste 9000 Norfolk, VA 23510-1655 |
757-640-3840 | 2024 / 1 |
| Teresa Goody Guillén, Esq. |
BakerHostetler Washington Square Ste 1100 1050 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20036 |
202-861-1630 | 2023 / 1 |
| Michael HuYoung, Esq. |
Barnes & Diehl, P.C. Three Paragon Place Suite 110 6806 Paragon Place Richmond, VA 23230 |
804-414-1602 | 2024 / 1 |
| Kenneth Brett Marston, Esq. |
Gentry, Locke, Rakes & Moore 10 Franklin Road, SE P.O. Box 40013 Roanoke, VA 24022-0013 |
540-983-9391 | 2023 / 1 |
| Jeffery Keith Mitchell, Esq. |
The Mitchell Law Firm, A Professional Corporation 1700 Kraft Dr Ste 2000 Blacksburg, VA 24060 |
540-443-9272 | 2022 / 1 |
| Michael Wayne Robinson, Esq. |
Venable LLP 8010 Towers Crescent Dr Ste 300 Tysons Corner, VA 22182 |
703-760-1600 | 2023 / 1 |
| Nia Ayanna Vidal, Esq. |
Office of the Federal Public Defender Suite 3600 701 E. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219-1884 |
804-565-0875 | 2024 / 1 |
| James Michael McCauley, Esq. Liaison |
Virginia State Bar 1111 E Main St Ste 700 Richmond, VA 23219-0026 |
804-205-6919 | ---- / - |
