                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EMPLOYMENT OF SPECIAL COUNSEL TO PROSECUTE PERSONS ILLEGALLY PRACTICING LAW (§
2.2-512)

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Attorney General may expend
funds appropriated to his office for the purpose of employing special counsel to
investigate and prosecute a complaint that any person is engaged in the practice
of law without being duly authorized or licensed so to do or is practicing law
in violation of law. The compensation of the special counsel shall be paid out
of the appropriation for the Attorney General&#8217;s office. No special counsel
shall be employed and paid except upon the request of the Executive Committee of
the Virginia State Bar.

HISTORY: 1958, c. 235, § 2-90.1; 1966, c. 677, § 2.1-125; 1980, c. 269; 2001,
c. 844.