This letter was submitted to the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands in support of its proposed amendment to Supreme Court Rule 202.1, which would allow in-house counsel from other U.S. jurisdictions to work for their client-employers located in the Virgin Islands without gaining admission to the bar there. The court’s action came on the heels of legislation introduced at the end of 2014 in the Legislature of the Virgin Islands, which sought a legislative remedy to the issue of unauthorized practice by in-house attorneys not licensed by the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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