Sentences with phrase «disbarment hearing»
The full video of the North Carolina disbarment hearing against former Durham County District Attorney Michael B. Nifong is now online and available in the public domain.
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At the end of Thompson's June 4th hearing, Tunis recommended enhanced disbarment, which would ensure that for the next ten years, the only bar Thompson will saddle up to will be the neighborhood drinking hole.
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.»
Travel costs to investigate cases, attend a deposition, trial, a court hearing, mediation, and even to attend your own disbarment proceedings are deductible because they are directly connected to the practice of law.
After the bar brought disciplinary charges against Finneran, a three - member hearing panel concluded that these same mitigating factors weighed against disbarment.
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.»
We are hopeful that another hearing panel will do so in an appropriate circumstance as we think sexual harassment should only rarely, if ever, result in a reprimand rather than a period of suspension,» Mercer wrote, adding that Sinukoff could expect disbarment in the case of a repeat offence.
«A hearing officer for the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers has recommended disbarment for three well - known lawyers accused of orchestrating an elaborate scheme to discredit a former Superior Court judge, The Boston Globe reports today.
Such orders are already routine in Canadian quasi-criminal tribunal hearings (such as Law Society discipline panels where the losing licensee is ordered to pay costs for his or her own suspension or disbarment!).
«Depending on the findings of a hearing panel, Palkowski faced significant disciplinary action and possibly disbarment,» commented Stuart Cameron, the LSBC director of investigations.
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.»