Virginia State Bar

And then, uh, yeah, here in nineteen fifty-eight, the ABA, um, the nineteen fifty-eight lawyer pamphlet normalized these factory-style productivity metrics.

But then in the seventies, this, uh, antitrust suit, Goldfarb versus Virginia State Bar, eliminated minimum fee schedules because it was a, it was determined to be anti-competitive price fixing.

And so now that we didn't have to follow these schedules from the, uh, from the bars, we were able to do whatever we wanted.

We looked at the accounting industry and we saw, "Hey, this has been working.

I believe it's the Virginia Law Association.

No, it's the Virginia Bar.

Excuse me.

So you can go right on the Virginia Bar and learn about pro bono support.

So even if you don't have someone on your board, which you should, by the way, have an attorney on your board, certainly be sure to reach out to the Virginia Bar Association and find out if there are some pro bono attorneys you can consult with if you have really some concerning questions around that.

But again, I would say that be...

Be open to the fact that legislative education, which is advocacy, is definitely not lobbying and so be open to building those relationships with your legislators and really communicating with them and educating them on the concerns of your community.

I asked about conflicts of interest.

Was it okay that Colleen had communicated with Stacy, and then sued her on behalf of the intended parents? Colleen steered me to the Virginia State Bar rules of professional conduct, which explain a conflict of interest would arise only if that prospective client had shared information that might significantly harm them in the legal matter at hand.

So the, the critical piece was did I, in my conversations with Stacy, learn something that would be significantly harmful to her, and there was nothing in our com- in any of our communications that would be significantly harmful to her.

We didn't share, like, anything that was gonna hurt her.

And

she wasn't sure she could get admitted to the Virginia Bar.

As we pointed, if Don Scott could, she can.

Yeah, exactly.

It's with Susan Bradford Tarley.

She's the president of none other than the Virginia State Bar.

She's a partner at Tarley Robinson PLC in Williamsburg, Virginia.

It's a practice that focuses on real estate law, business law, community associations, and creditors rights.

She is a former adjunct professor at William and Mary Law School.

Susan's also a former substitute circuit court judge.

She served on the Virginia State Bar Council Executive Committee and Clients Protection Fund leadership.

She is an inductee of the Virginia Lawyers Hall of Fame and is a Virginia Law Foundation fellow.