The best historical treatment is Legal Education in Virginia 1779-1979, W.
Hamilton Bryson, University Press of Virginia. You might also try the
Virginia Bar Association (different from the Va. State Bar) which was
organized in 1888.

Richard E. Dixon
Editor, Jefferson Notes
Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society
4122 Leonard Drive
Fairfax, Va 22030
703-691-0770 fax 703-691-0978


> [Original Message]
> From: Ted Delaney <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 8/7/2008 12:12:16 PM
> Subject: [VA-HIST] Lawyers in 19th-Century Virginia
>
> Does anyone know how lawyers were officially admitted to the Virginia bar
in 
> the late 1800s?  More specifically, what primary source would document
those 
> admissions?  I would love to find a chronological list of admissions in
the 
> 1870s and 1880s.
>
> I have tried both the Virginia State Bar (vsb.org), which wasn't
established 
> until 1938, and the Library of Virginia, but neither place seems to have 
> these records.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Ted Delaney
> Archivist & Curator
> Old City Cemetery Museums
> Lynchburg, Virginia
> gravegarden.org
>
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