Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Virginia Ex Rel. Virginia State Bar

The Virginia State Bar brought this suit in the Chancery Court of the City of Richmond, Virginia, *134against the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, an investigator employed by the Brotherhood, and an attorney designated its “Regional Counsel,” to enjoin them from carrying on activities which, the Bar charged, constituted the solicitation of legal business and the unauthorized practice of law in Virginia.1 It was conceded that in order to assist the prosecution of claims by injured railroad workers or by the families of workers killed on the job the Brotherhood maintains in Virginia and throughout…