A potential policy that law societies could enact would be cooperating with law enforcement, reporting newly discovered issues to law enforcement and cooperating fully and completely with the pressing of criminal charges by law enforcement
after disbarment has been instated.
The case leaves Tennessee lawyers with conflicting guidance on the possibility of reinstatement
after disbarment, says Pera.
Some states focus on lawyers» efforts
after disbarment to atone for their wrongdoing.
Coughlan doesn't even like to speak of «reinstatement
after disbarment.»
«In Ohio, there's no such thing as reinstatement
after disbarment — which includes being disbarred, resigning with discipline pending, or asking to retire and having that request accepted,» says Jonathan E. Coughlan, the disciplinary counsel for the Ohio Supreme Court in Columbus.
Jonathan Coughlan: «In Ohio, there's no such thing as reinstatement
after disbarment — which includes being disbarred, resigning with discipline pending, or asking to retire and having that request accepted.
Not exact matches
Pasco County attorney James Stanton, Jr. accepted
disbarment by consent
after allegations he set up hidden cameras to record women in restrooms and showers at Tampa's MaintenX Management in 2010.
On January 7, the Louisiana Hearing Committee recommended one fiery lawyer's permanent
disbarment after determining he «had to be admonished for brandishing about his shillelagh, his action clearly inappropriate for a disciplinary proceeding.»
In the Russian Federation, lawyers have been threatened with
disbarment after pursuing their clients» allegations of torture by police, and been assaulted by police and prevented from representing clients.
After the bar brought disciplinary charges against Finneran, a three - member hearing panel concluded that these same mitigating factors weighed against
disbarment.
A lawyer in Louisiana was recently the victim of a double
disbarment, being permanently disbarred by the Louisiana Supreme Court for continuing to work as an attorney for Verizon
after being disbarred in 2002.
The law society had earlier warned Amissah - Ocran to stop using Graham for real estate services
after her involvement in fraudulent mortgage transactions that resulted in another lawyer's
disbarment.
After leaving public service, though, he operated an unlicensed bank that laundered money for drug traffickers, which resulted in
disbarment and a prison sentence.
This dicta by the Supreme Court in Hardesty did not discuss the effect of SCR 4.020 (1)(d) which gives the Judicial Conduct Commission «the authority to refer any judge of the Court of Justice who,
after notice and hearing is found by the Commission to be guilty of misconduct, to the KBA for possible suspension or
disbarment from the practice of law.»