Virginia Legal Research

-Published bi-weekly including proposed and final state rules and regulations
-Useful for tracking the history of a regulation or updating, regulations modified since the date of the administrative code's most recent supplement

-official compilation of all rules and regulations presently in effect
-organized by subject matter into 24 titles
-updated bi-annually
-specific regulations located using either the code's comprehensive index or a conversion table providing references from the Virginia Register
-includes historical notes about each regulations adoption and amendment, citations to cases adn Attorney General Opinions interpreting or applying the regulation, cross-references to related statutes and regulations and references to relevant legal encyclopedia or law review articles
-must be updated by checking (1) main volume of Administrative Code, (2) latest supplement of Administrative Code and (3) Virginia Register

-official written advisory opinions on issues of Virginia law when formerly requested by the governor, a member of the General Assembly, a state court judge, the State Corporation Commission, a Commonwealth's Attorney or county attorney or other designated government officer
-Annual Report of the Attorney General of Virginia compiles such opinions
-recent opinions are available on the Internet at

-collected in the Opinions of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission (formerly the Opinions of the Industrial Commission of Virginia)
-claimant and defendant indexes as well as a subject index-digest to reported opinions in each volume