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The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has annulled the license of an attorney who pleaded no contest to criminal charges of false swearing and "malicious application to declare a person mentally ill or inebriate." The problems started in Baristas...

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While it was "not without sympathy" for an injured woman who had looked to the legal profession for protection of her rights, the North Carolina Court of Appeals nonetheless dismissed her legal malpractice case on statute of limitations grounds. The...

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A Louisiana hearing committee has recommended the permanent disbarment of an attorney convicted of a single felony count of mail, wire, identity document and healthcare fraud. The attorney was the incumbent President of the Louisiana Horseman's Benevolent Association 1993, Inc....

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The Delaware Supreme Court has ordered that a bar discipline matter be closed, concluding that the attorney's conviction for Offensive Touching "bears no relationship to Respondent's fitness to practice law." The conviction involved a domestic incident in public during which...

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The Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board has concluded that a hearing committee's proposed sanction of disbarment should be raised to permanent disbarment: In accepting fees from her clients and failing to provide services, Respondent has intentionally converted funds from numerous sources...

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The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected a second petition for voluntary discipline in a matter involving three disciplinary cases. After rejecting a proposed suspension of six months, the court here turned thumbs down to eighteen months. Although there were a...

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An attorney who was paid $50 to write a collection letter for the client failed to write the letter. After the client complained, the attorney promised deputy bar counsel that he would attend to the matter, Thereafter, he still failed...

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An attorney who failed to file an affidavit required as a result of her suspension from practice was censured by the New Jersey Supreme Court. The Disciplinary Review Board indicated that it would have imposed a lesser sanction but for...

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The Iowa Supreme Court has imposed suspensions of eighteen months of two attorneys for charging excessive fees during the last two decades of a thirty-year representation of a ward. The ward was a Vietnam veteran who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia,...

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Call for Papers: AALS Section on Professional Responsibility Subject: "The Lost Lawyer and the Lawyer Statesman Ideal: A Generation Later – The Shifting Sands of the Profession’s Identity," 2014 AALS Annual Meeting, New York, NY The AALS Section invites papers...

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The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has rejected the motion of the Board of Bar Examiners for reconsideration of its recent order directing the admission of F. Lee Bailey. The board had apparently sought to persuade the court to defer to...

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The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has ordered a reprimand of an attorney for lapses in the representation of clients in connection with two appeals. The court found a number of mitigating and aggravating factors. It helped that the...

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The New Mexico Supreme Court has approved stipulated discipline and imposed a public censure of a magistrate judge. The judge had sought to intervene on behalf of his stepson, who was in custody. He engaged in an ex parte contact...

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An Illinois Hearing Board has recommended a two-year suspension of an attorney who, as president and treasurer of a condominium association, used entrusted funds. The board rejected the attorney's defenses and explanation: We previously rejected the notion that Respondent was...

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The Tennessee circuit court judge chaged with ethics violations arising out of a visit to the home of a party in a parenting dispute has filed an answer denying any misconduct. The answer asserts that the visit was done with...

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An attorney who had "trampled" the fine line between zealous advocacy and frivolousness was disbarred by the Oklahoma Supreme Court. The misconduct took place in litigation over a trust and was exacerbated by the failure to cooperate in the bar...

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A non-attorney may file a claim on behalf of a business entity in probate court without running afoul of unauthorized practice restrictions, according to an opinion issued today by the South Carolina Supreme Court. The process for an allowance of...

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The South Carolina Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal on an action seeking declaration that Governor Nikki Haley committed ethics violations while serving as a member of the state House of Representatives. A circuit court had dismissed the action (brought by...

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The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals granted as moulded a writ of prohibition brought by an attorney seeking to prevent disciplinary authorities from pursuing an ethics complaint against him. The attorney was the Kanawha County Prosecuting Attorney at the...

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An Arizona attorney has consented to disbarment in the wake of his guilty plea to criminal charges. Huffpost Miami had details: Kim Rothstein's former attorney pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to help her hide more than $1 million in jewelry...

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