West Virginia State Bar v. Earley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• completing blank forms prepared and furnished by compensation commissioner does not constitute practice of law
• examining procedures employed and nature of claims litigated in workers’ compensation hearings
• “[T]he Legislature can not restrict or impair this power of the courts or permit or authorize laymen to engage in the practice of law.”
• “[i]n the exercise of their inherent power the courts may supervise, regulate and control the practice of law by duly authorized attorneys and prevent the unauthorized practice of law by any person, agency or corporation”
• “The State Compensation Commissioner is not a judicial tribunal but an administrative agency which may properly be considered as an administrative tribunal of the government of this State. Cole v. State Compensation Commissioner, 121 W.Va. 111, 1 S.E.2d 877 [ (1939
• “Attorneys as officers of the court are in effect a part of the judicial system of the State. The customary functions of attorneys at law bear an intimate relation to the administration of justice by the courts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).