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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69442</law_id><section_number>8.01-226.1</section_number><catch_line>Civil immunity when participating in Lawyers Helping Lawyers</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3">Actions</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="21">Miscellaneous Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any <span class="dictionary">person</span> shall be immune from civil liability for, or resulting from, any act, decision, omission, communication, <span class="dictionary">finding</span>, <span class="dictionary">opinion</span> or conclusion made or conducted in connection with the investigation, intervention, counseling or monitoring of a lawyer, <span class="dictionary">judge</span>, paralegal, or other member of the legal profession by &#x201C;Lawyers Helping Lawyers,&#x201D; a Virginia nonprofit, nonstock corporation dedicated to assisting members of the legal profession engaged in substance abuse or suffering from mental illness, if such act, decision, omission, communication, <span class="dictionary">finding</span>, <span class="dictionary">opinion</span> or conclusion is made or conducted in good faith and without <span class="dictionary">malicious</span> <span class="dictionary">intent</span>.
		Nothing in this section shall be construed to grant immunity to any claim by a client against a <span class="dictionary">person</span> licensed to practice <span class="dictionary">law</span>.</p></section></text><history>1987, c. 527; 1992, c. 534; 2003, c. 571.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
