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This category contains articles about lawyers associated with the U.S. state of West Virginia. This category also includes lawyers who resided in the region that would become West Virginia prior to its separation from Virginia in 1863.
William Stewart Thompson (born 1969) [1] is the United States attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia since 2021. From 2007 to 2021, he served as a judge on the 25th Judicial Circuit of West Virginia.
For example, in Virginia, the Virginia State Bar is the mandatory organization and the Virginia Bar Association is voluntary. There are many bar associations other than state bar associations. Usually these are organized by geography (e.g. county bar associations), area of practice, or affiliation (e.g. ethnic bar associations).
Janet Steele (1977): [17] First female judge in Fayette County, West Virginia; Alice Johnson McChesney (1922): [18] First female lawyer in Charleston, West Virginia [Kanawha County, West Virginia] Elizabeth Aileen Hatfield (1933): [19] First female lawyer in Logan County, West Virginia; Rhonda Wade: [20] First female prosecutor in Marshall ...
On December 28, 2015, Goodwin announced that he would be stepping down from his position as U.S. Attorney effective at the end of 2015 and returning to private law practice. On January 1, 2016, Goodwin filed candidacy papers with the West Virginia Secretary of State's office to run for governor of West Virginia as a Democrat in the 2016 election.
The State Bar's predecessor was a voluntary state bar association known as the California Bar Association. [8]: xiii The leader of the effort to establish an integrated (official) bar was Judge Jeremiah F. Sullivan, who first proposed the concept at the California Bar Association's Santa Barbara convention in September 1917, and provided the California Bar Association with a copy of a Quebec ...
Admission to the bar in the United States is the granting of permission by a particular court system to a lawyer to practice law in the jurisdiction. Each U.S. state and jurisdiction (e.g. territories under federal control) has its own court system and sets its own rules and standards for bar admission.
It is directly responsible to the Supreme Court of California. All attorney admissions and disbarments are issued as recommendations of the State Bar, which are then routinely ratified by the Supreme Court. [41] [42] [43] California's bar is the largest in the U.S. with 200,000 members, of whom 150,000 are actively practicing.