VSB Criminal Law section honors Willis with award

VSB Council: Make prosecuting UPL easier

By Alan Cooper
Published: October 18, 2010
Tags: Criminal, General Assembly, Judgeships, Payee Notification, Virginia CLE, Virginia Law Foundation, Virginia State Bar

CHARLOTTESVILLE—The Virginia State Bar Council has voted to ask the General Assembly to make it easier to prosecute criminal violations of the state law barring the unauthorized practice of law. The proposal would increase the statute of limitations for the offenses from 12 months to two years. The proposed law also would allow a victim [...]

VSB wants control of MCLE regs

By Alan Cooper
Published: July 13, 2010
Tags: Virginia CLE, Virginia State Bar

A Virginia State Bar task force is recommending that the VSB Council have the final say on regulations by the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board. Under the proposal, the council could reject amendments or regulations from the board by a two-thirds vote of council. Moreover, any regulations would have to be adopted by at least [...]

Lawyer questions new ‘interactive’ CLE rule

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: March 15, 2010
Tags: Virginia CLE

Dear Editor: Let me understand this. The Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board will now require that four hours of mandatory CLE be “interactive.” This change is said “to reflect concern about the decline over the last five years of attendance at live programs” and is designed to “stave off the inevitable that everyone will just [...]

MCLE board adopts ‘interactive’ requirement

By Alan Cooper
Published: March 3, 2010
Tags: Virginia CLE

A third of the 12 hours of continuing legal education required of lawyers each year must be in the form of “interactive” programs, according to rules adopted by the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board last month. The change didn’t meet the approval of some members of the Virginia State Bar Council, which received a report [...]