                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PRACTICE OF LAW; STUDENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM; DEFINITION (§ 54.1-3900)

Persons who hold a license or certificate to practice law under the laws of this
Commonwealth and have paid the license tax prescribed by law may practice law in
the Commonwealth.
		Any person authorized and practicing as counsel or attorney in any state or
territory of the United States, or in the District of Columbia, may for the
purpose of attending to any case he may occasionally have in association with a
practicing attorney of this Commonwealth practice in the courts of this
Commonwealth, in which case no license fee shall be chargeable against such
nonresident attorney.
		Nothing herein shall prohibit the limited practice of law by military legal
assistance attorneys who are employed by a military program providing legal
services to low-income military clients and their dependents pursuant to rules
promulgated by the Supreme Court of Virginia.
		Nothing herein shall prohibit a limited practice of law under the supervision
of a practicing attorney by (i) third-year law students or (ii) persons who are
in the final year of a program of study as authorized in § 54.1-3926, pursuant
to rules promulgated by the Supreme Court of Virginia.
		Nothing herein shall prohibit an employee of a state agency in the course of
his employment from representing the interests of his agency in administrative
hearings before any state agency, such representation to be limited to the
examination of witnesses at administrative hearings relating to personnel
matters and the adoption of agency standards, policies, rules and regulations.
		Nothing herein shall prohibit designated nonattorney employees of the
Department of Social Services from completing, signing and filing petitions and
motions relating to the establishment, modification, or enforcement of support
on forms approved by the Supreme Court of Virginia in Department cases in the
juvenile and domestic relations district courts.
		Nothing herein shall prohibit designated nonattorney employees of a local
department of social services from appearing before an intake officer to
initiate a case in accordance with subsection A of § 16.1-260 on behalf of the
local department of social services.
		Nothing herein shall prohibit designated nonattorney employees of a local
department of social services from completing, signing, and filing with the
clerk of the juvenile and domestic relations district court, on forms approved
by the Supreme Court of Virginia, petitions for foster care review, petitions
for permanency planning hearings, petitions to establish paternity, motions to
establish or modify support, motions to amend or review an order, or motions for
a rule to show cause.
		Nothing herein shall prohibit a nonattorney attendance officer, or a local
school division superintendent or his designee when acting as an attendance
officer pursuant to § 22.1-258, from completing, signing, and filing with the
intake officer of a juvenile and domestic relations district court, on forms
approved by the Supreme Court of Virginia, a petition for a violation of a
school attendance order entered by a juvenile and domestic relations district
court pursuant to § 16.1-278.5 in response to the filing of a petition alleging
the pupil is a child in need of supervision as defined in § 16.1-228.
		As used in this chapter &#8220;attorney&#8221; means attorney-at-law.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 54-42; 1972, c. 391; 1974, c. 456; 1976, c. 277; 1988, c.
765; 1991, c. 650; 1994, c. 30; 1998, c. 796; 2008, cc. 136, 845; 2016, c. 704;
2020, cc. 105, 106.