Virginia state bar access to legal services free#
Or, you could go the Horace Hunter route and spend years fighting the Bar to defend your free speech rights when it is so much easier to take that slap on the wrist so they will quit wasting your time and your clients'. You might even take a "public reprimand" if it will get them to stop wasting your time so you can get back to representing your clients. Sure, it can be fought and forced into the light, but if you're a solo practitioner busting your rear to keep your business going you don't have the time or resources and when you are offered a "private reprimand" that will disappear, unseen by anyone, in a set number of years if nothing further happens you take it. The Bar acts, in many cases as investigator, jury, and sentencing judge. The fact that it star chambers lawyers isn't a good thing. The Bar should be limited to investigating and reporting to courts. (e) Advances diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. (d) Promotes access to legal services and (c) Regulates attorneys’ completion of mandatory continuing legal education (MCLE) (b) Disciplines lawyers who violate the rules Of course, not satisfied with that vague explanation the Bar goes further: (a) Enforces the rules and regulations that govern lawyer ethical behavior and the unauthorized practice of law (4) Seems an awful lot like self appointed duties unlikely to find support in enabling statutes. (2) Seems overly broad, but generally true. (4) to assist in improving the legal profession and the judicial Profession of Virginia, (3) to advance access to legal services, and Instead, I find this: The mission of the Virginia Stateīar is (1) to protect the public, (2) to regulate the legal With that as a starting place, I went to the Bar's own website, sure they would have their mission statement well put forth. To present before the Courts any attorney who, through willful misconduct or gross negligence caused more than de minimis demonstrable harm to a client. To enforce rules that protect both attorneys and their clients from harm while they are engaged in, or preparing for, a legal proceeding or procedure or the possibility of either.Ģ. Realizing that I couldn't think of a place in the law that I knew gave a raison d'etre for the Bar, I stared into space and came up with the best purpose I could come up with in a couple moments.ġ. I was thinking about a particular legal issue involving the Bar overstepping its legal and constitutional parameters (inspired by Scott's soliloquy about the ABA trying to get States to repeal free speech via ethics rules).
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