The Commonwealth’s Attorneys’ Services Council (CASC) is the Virginia state agency responsible for providing training, education and services for Virginia’s prosecutors. The 120 elected Commonwealth’s Attorneys and their Assistants statewide depend upon CASC sponsored training programs to meet their annual mandatory continuing legal education requirements (MCLE) as established by the Virginia State Bar.

CASC provides over 30 training programs per year. Additionally, CASC provides to all prosecutors across the state access to briefs, legal memoranda, court forms, training outlines, information about expert witnesses, and weekly updates from the Virginia Court of Appeals, Virginia Supreme Court, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. CASC also provides legislative and appellate updates for both prosecutors and law enforcement statewide, including to DCJS for statewide use by law enforcement training academies.

CASC’s governing council is comprised of six officers and sixteen Commonwealth’s Attorneys representing each of Virginia’s congressional districts. CASC staff includes a director, four full-time staff attorneys, two part-time program specialists and a fiscal director. The Council offices are located at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. CASC is part of the Public Safety Secretariat of the Executive Branch.