Sentences with phrase «disbarment by»

His allocution speech was effective and sincere, and demonstrated his talent as a trial lawyer, a talent that he is not likely to ever demonstrate in court again due to his permanent disbarment by the KBA.

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.

Not exact matches

Well seems Jack Thompson might not be much of a problem in the near future, the Anti-Game Lawyer has reason to be a little embarrassed this week as The Florida Supreme Court approved a recommendation made by Judge Dava Tunis earlier this year, a recommendation that Jack Thompson receive a permanent disbarment with no opportunity for reinstatement.

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.

Clients of Lyle Howe or persons affected by this disbarment may direct inquiries to the Receiver appointed to this practice:

... Although respondent attempts to minimize his criminal acts and illegal conduct involving moral turpitude by arguing that he did not distribute medications to others, the cumulative nature of respondent's misconduct... merits disbarment.»

Those disbarment totals accounted for just over 0.08 percent of the U.S. population of 1.27 million active practicing attorneys at the end of 2012, a number based on headcounts collected from the states and territories by the ABA Market Research Department.

People didn't like barratry, so many states made it a misdemeanor crime punishable by fine or imprisonment and, when the perpetrator is an attorney, possible 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.

Citing the court rules governing the reinstatement process, she wrote: «We have chosen, however, not to make disbarment permanent for even the most serious offenses, opting instead to allow all disbarred attorneys to seek readmission and have the merits of their petitions judged on a case - by - case basis.

A trial judge in Pearson's divorce also denied his motion seeking responses to 248 requests for admissions and ordered him to pay $ 12,000 in legal fees to VanLowe because he was «substantially responsible for «excessive driving up» of the legal costs by «threatening both wife and her lawyer with disbarment» and creating unnecessary litigation,» the appeals ruling stated.

In considering the matter, the hearing panel concluded disbarment was the only appropriate punishment: «Any other sanction would compromise the public confidence in the profession's integrity and suggest that the legal profession does not take dishonesty committed by lawyers seriously.»

Savone's lawyer Brian Radnoff, a partner at Lerners LLP, says his client was treated unfairly by the law society as it would not allow production of vendor and lender documents the defence considered vital to its case and yet still moved for disbarment.

«It provides a vehicle by which the legal profession can file a civil suit against a violator and get his deposition, so the case can then move onto criminal prosecution and disbarment.»

First, Rule 2.1 (b) authorizes circuit discipline for «discipline, including disbarment or suspension, by another court.»

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.

Outlaw the Bar's overreaching of the Judicial Conduct Commission and require that any ethics prosecutions or disbarment actions against Judges by the Bar Counsel, must first be recommended by the Judicial Conduct Commission.

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.»

(i) Whether any disbarment or other proceedings of a like nature have ever been instituted against him, or whether by resignation, withdrawal or otherwise the member has terminated or attempted to terminate his office as an attorney, and, in either or any of the cases above referred to, giving full particulars.

Disclosure found to be unreasonable could be punished by private censure, public censure, suspension of license, or even disbarment, depending on the view of the bar association's ethics investigators.

Instead, he was told he had committed a very serious fraud by his CLE certification misstatement, and was therefore fired, with a recommendation that he report himself to the Attorney Disciplinary Board for possible license suspension or disbarment.