The Virginia Law & Business Review consistently ranks among the premier journals of business law scholarship, and its current hard-copy circulation exceeds 1,000 copies per issue.

[12] In addition, the journal is accessible on its website and on electronic databases such as LexisNexis and Westlaw.

Topics of recent symposia have included: the impact of institutional investors on capital markets,[15][16] U.S. competitiveness in the world economy,[17][18] and the global credit crisis of 2009.

[21] The most recent symposium, "The Business of Health Care," featured a keynote speech by Earl "Duke" Collier, Jr. of the University of Virginia Law School Class of 1973, former Deputy Administrator of the Health Care Finance Administration (now the Center of Medicare & Medicaid Services) and current health care executive.

[22][23] The Virginia Law & Business Review selects its members based on the results of a legal writing competition held each spring and fall at the University of Virginia School of Law.