The Office of the Presiding Disciplinary Judge presides over
formal complaints against attorneys.
Not exact matches
BOROUGH PRESIDENT DIAZ & CONGRESSMAN ESPAILLAT FILE DISCIPLINARY GRIEVANCE
AGAINST NEW YORK
ATTORNEY FOLLOWING OUTCRY FROM CONSTITUENTS Today, Congressman Adriano Espaillat (NY - 13) and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. sent a letter and filed a
formal legal
complaint to the Departmental Disciplinary Committee for the First -LSB-...]
Now, WKBW is reporting they have learned there are three more
formal complaints against Kendzia, and that the Niagara County District
Attorney's office is following up on even more tips.
Based on that allegation, the Committee on
Attorney Advertising filed a
formal complaint against Zemel, charging him with violating the ethical prohibitions
against direct client solicitation and
against communicating with someone whose physical, emotional or mental state might impair the decision to hire a lawyer.
A proceeding becomes «
formal,» and thus public, when a
formal complaint is filed
against the
attorney with the Presiding Disciplinary Judge.
If Solicited
Attorney runs up
against Expert in another case, after they have established a «cross-referral professional relationship» and
formal or informal «working partnership» (the
formal kind is of dubious legal ethicity because of the inappropriate feeder of referrals in exchange for indirect compensation), and have «mutual» cases pending, Solicited will have a very difficult time shredding Expert or Expert's testimony when that is required in another case, or filing a
complaint against him, if necessary, because that would place Solicited's other clients» pending cases at risk.