The Virginia Law Foundation has provided more than $28 million in grants to support projects throughout the Commonwealth that facilitate access to justice, promote the Rule of Law, and provide law-related education in support of these ideals.
“Serving with the Foundation is like pro bono work, it is something that gives more to me than I think I give to them.” George W. Shanks (Fellows Class of 2005) talks about why he has chosen to serve on the board of the Virginia Law Foundation from 2011 to the present.
The Nuremberg Trials were the first international trials of major Nazi war criminals. The Virginia Holocaust Museum’s Nuremberg Courtroom Exhibit gives visitors the chance to see a full recreation of Room 600 at the Palace of Justice used during the International Military Tribunals, and to experience the gravity of the trials. In this video, Irving…
Doris H. Causey (Fellows Class of 2016), a legal aid attorney and immediate Past President of the Virginia State Bar, shares her thoughts on why it is so important to live in a society governed by the Rule of Law, and how it goes hand in hand with access to justice. This is the first…
John T. “Til” Hazel, Jr. (Fellows Class of 1998) opened his own law practice when Fairfax County had more dairy farms than office complexes. Hazel’s care for his community’s future led him to take on important land use cases, said Grayson P. Hanes (Fellows Class of 1991), in this tribute created for the Foundation’s 2017…
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