We want to provide you with as much information as possible on the bar admission process in Virginia. On this web site, you will find a list of frequently asked questions about seeking admission to the Virginia Bar specific information about the bar examination and its components information on admission without examination for persons who may be qualified by virtue of their years of experience in the full-time practice of law and the Rules of the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners. We hope that one of the most useful features of this site will be the forms which are available to be downloaded, completed on your own computer, and then printed out and filed with the Board. Some of these forms are in PDF format, and you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to read and print those forms. The Applicant's Character and Fitness Questionnaire, the Application for the Bar Examination, and the Application for Re-Examination are available for downloading in a form which can be completed on your own computer, printed, and then filed with the Board together with a floppy disk.
Instructions are with the download form.
You do not need any special program on your computer to use these forms. They are available for both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. Its purposes are to ascertain the qualifications of applicants for admission to the Bar of Virginia and to license those applicants who meet those requirements as established by the Supreme Court of Virginia, the Virginia General Assembly, and the Rules and Regulations issued by the Board. We can be contacted at the address and phone number below. We try to respond to all correspondence within 48 hours of our receipt, workload permitting.