must certify the case to the Disciplinary Board, which has the authority to revoke a license to practice law. Finally, a respondent has the right to appeal an order of the Disciplinary Board to the Supreme Court of Virginia. Id. at 13(J)(1). The proceedings of the Disciplinary Board and the District Committee are decidedly judicial in nature. They bear all the hallmarks of judicial proceedings including: impartial adjudicators, public hearings, discovery, the opportunity to examine and cross examine witnesses, to submit evidence, to make legal and factual arguments, a written, fact-driven legal adjudication, and a right of appeal. This conclusion is in accord with the law in the Fourth Circuit. See e.g. Allstate Ins. Co., v. West Virginia State Bar, 233 F.3d 813, 817 (4th Cir.2000) (<HOLDING>). Additionally, this Court has previously held
holding that state sovereign immunity did not bar a claim based on bankruptcy proceedings under article i section 8 clause 4 because states agreed in the plan of the convention to be subject to such suits holding that a minimum fee schedule enforced by the virginia state bar did not fall within the parker exception because the fee schedule was not mandated by the virginia supreme court and thus it could not fairly be said that the state of virginia through its supreme court rules required the anticompetitive activities holding that when considering west virginia rules of criminal procedure 35b motions circuit courts generally should consider only those events that occur within the 120day filing period holding that the proceedings of the west virginia state bar committee on the unlawful practice were judicial in nature based on hallmarks similar to those discussed herein holding that the west virginia state bar committee on legal ethics was a state court for purposes of removal and citing favorably to volkswagen de puerto rico supra 454 f2d 38