The Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board revoked the law license of a Christiansburg lawyer who was indicted earlier this year on 21 felony charges related to forgery of his clients' legal documents.

Gerard Raymond Marks, 44, consented to the revocation, according to a news release Thursday from the bar.

Marks admitted that he accepted money from his clients 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, according to the release.

A court document dated April 25 lists Marks' employment as a pizza delivery driver for Papa John's, a job he had held since late last year.

A Montgomery County grand jury in April indicted Marks on 11 counts of forgery of public records and 10 counts of uttering, or passing false legal documents to clients and others. The charges resulted from an investigation by Virginia State Police.

Marks is accused of forging several documents from 1999 to 2007, including decrees in two divorces, two adoptions and land-use agreements involving Christiansburg developer Roger Woody.

After he was formally charged with the 21 counts, Marks was released on $25,000 bond.

Marks' attorney, Malcolm Doubles of Fincastle, couldn't be reached for comment late Thursday afternoon. Marks' case is scheduled for a jury trial Sept. 25 in Montgomery County Circuit Court.

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

Retired Circuit Court Judge Ford Quillen will hear the case.

According to a letter filed in Montgomery County Circuit Court in May from circuit court Judge Joey Showalter, "all the judges of the 27th judicial circuit have disqualified themselves" from the case.

In September, Showalter, acting as chief judge for the judicial circuit, indefinitely barred 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 state bar suspended Marks' law license for failure to comply with a subpoena duces tecum, an order for a witness to appear and to bring specified records or documents.