Wang, who heads China's top anti-graft agency and is in charge
of public discipline, was the key target of Chinese dissident Guo Wengui's allegations of corruption in the highest party ranks.
On the other hand, the OLPR issues about 125 private admonitions each year, about 20 to 25 private probations, and pursues
public discipline against 30 to 40 lawyers each year.
To aid in this, the synod suggested that congregations exercise closer discipline and that the magistrates also
enforce public discipline.
The Virginia Supreme Court has adopted rules requiring that the disciplinary process be confidential unless the lawyer
receives public discipline (admonition, public reprimand, suspension or revocation) or a matter is scheduled on the bar's public hearing docket maintained by the Clerk of the Disciplinary System.
I spent over five years working at OLPR, reviewing complaints, drafting dismissals and admonitions, and
litigating public discipline cases against attorneys.
Some offenses that seem minor to practicing lawyers, such as improper notarization of documents, actually routinely result
in public discipline, whereas overdrafts on a lawyer's trust account (which many lawyers think will lead them straight to a suspension) often do not result in any discipline at all.
Once you find an attorney you might want to work with, cross-reference the attorney with your state bar association to see if that attorney has any record
of public discipline.
Unfortunately for Kindlon, he was caught, resulting in formal and
public discipline.
Until we do away with any form of dual agency, have a system of
public discipline, an easier submission process for complaints, posting on Board, Council, Provincial Association and CREA websites and from time to time in mainstream media of all complaints made by other agents and the public for breaches of ethics, rules and regulations, followed up with actual (not wrist slaps) penalties for breaches of our rules and regulations we will remain as we are today, «unprofessional.»