Rules and regulations defining practice of law and prescribing procedures for practice of law by law students, codes of ethics, use of limited liability companies, and disciplinary procedure
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 403 F. Supp. 2d 468 - Motley v. Virginia State Bar (2005)
Most recently applied in In re Rodriguez (December 2008)
Code 1950, § 54-48; 1973, c. 484; 1974, c. 456; 1988, c. 765; 1992, c. 574.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The Supreme Court may promulgate rules and regulations:
Defining the practice of law.
Prescribing procedures for the limited practice of law by third-year law students.
Prescribing a code of ethics governing the professional conduct of attorneys including the practice of law or patent law through professional law corporations, limited liability companies, and partnerships, and a code of judicial ethics.
Prescribing procedures for disciplining, suspending, and disbarring attorneys.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.