The Virgina State Bar Disciplinary Board has revoked the law license of a Christiansburg attorney indicted earlier this year on 21 felony counts related to forgery of his clients' legal documents.

Gerard Raymond Marks -- a Blacksburg resident who practiced law from an office in Oak Tree Park in Christiansburg -- consented to the revocation, according to a news release from the bar.

The bar made its decision Wednesday, and it was announced this morning.

According to the release, Marks "admitted that he accepted client money without performing the work for which he was hired, that he issued a purported settlement check to a client when no settlement had occurred and that he forged the signatures of judges and other officials on legal documents."

In April, a Montgomery County grand jury indicted Marks on 11 counts of forgery of public records and 10 counts of uttering, or passing false legal documents to clients and others. He is accused of forging several documents including decrees in two divorces and two adoptions for various clients and land-use agreements involving Christiansburg developer Roger Woody.

Botetourt County Commonwealth's Attorney Joel Branscom has been appointed a special prosecutor in the case after Montgomery County Commonwealth's Attorney Brad Finch recused himself.

The indictment shows the alleged actions beginning in 1999 and continuing into 2007.

In September, Circuit Court Judge Joey Showalter, acting as chief judge for the judical circuit, issued an order indefinitely barring Marks from practicing in the 27th Circuit, which includes the counties of Bland, Carroll, Floyd, Giles, Grayson, Montgomery, Pulaski and Wythe, and the city of Radford.

Three months later, the Virginia State Bar suspended Marks' license to practice law for failure to comply with a subpoena duces tecum -- an official request ordering a witness to appear and to bring specified documents or records.