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Law 2025: FLETCHER, PAUL
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CEO, VIRGINIA BAR ASSOCIATION, RICHMOND
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Law 2025: FLETCHER, PAUL
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CEO, VIRGINIA BAR ASSOCIATION, RICHMOND
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
A former journalist, Fletcher has led the state’s oldest voluntary bar association since 2021.
Under his leadership, the bar this year launched the VBA Leadership Academy to train the legal industry’s next generation of leaders in Virginia.
Additionally, it has developed the first model policy for AI use by law firms and established task forces to address the profession’s future and the growing influence of AI on the practice of law.
Fletcher earned a master’s degree in English from Emory University before getting a law degree from Washington and Lee University in 1985. After graduating, Fletcher worked at White, Elliott & Bundy in Southwest Virginia for three years. In the late 1980s, he joined Virginia Lawyers Weekly as publisher and editor-in-chief, a role he held for more than three decades. He was named to Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s Hall of Fame in May.
Fletcher served as president of the Virginia chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and was named national president in 2015. He’s also a past president of the Virginia Press Association.
PERSONAL MOTTO: I am a big “Star Trek” fan, so I’ll go with “Make it so.”
