A fight is brewing in the Virginia legal community over a proposal that would force in-house corporate lawyers to shell out cash and register with the state bar association.
Currently, attorneys in Virginia’s corporate legal departments do not have to become Virginia attorneys or even let the Virginia State Bar know who they are. The bar believes that a vast number of the in-house corporate lawyers working in Virginia are licensed out of state, not in Richmond — leaving the bar no way to monitor them or their activities.
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