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2012 SESSION
SB 44 Virginia State Bar; allows full-time law school professors to be admitted as an active member.
Introduced by: Henry L. Marsh III | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Virginia State Bar admission for full-time law school professors. Allows a full-time law professor to be admitted as an active member of the Virginia State Bar without examination provided that (i) he has been engaged in the full-time practice of law for five of the seven years immediately preceding application for membership to the Virginia State Bar; (ii) he is employed as a full-time professor at an American Bar Association accredited Virginia law school; and (iii) he meets all other requirements for admission to the Virginia State Bar. The bill provides that membership is limited to the period of employment as a full-time professor.
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HISTORY
- 01/03/12 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12100607D
- 01/03/12 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/18/12 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
- 01/20/12 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/12 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/24/12 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (26-Y 14-N)
- 02/13/12 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/13/12 House: Read first time
- 02/13/12 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/16/12 House: Assigned Courts sub: #2 Civil
- 02/27/12 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
- 03/10/12 House: Left in Courts of Justice