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Stacked decks, standards of review, and the RPC 8.1 duty to cooperate

In many jurisdictions, disciplinary proceedings against lawyers are referred to as being “quasi-criminal” in nature.  If you ask lawyers who defend lawyers in disciplinary proceedings, you will often hear them agree that the nature of the work can feel a good bit like criminal defense work, but with two pretty universal exceptions that make the […]

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A promised update about that CLEUI/CLEWI situation.

A little while back, I posted about a Virginia lawyer who had been suspended after being drunk and disruptive while attending a CLE.  At the time, I speculated about what the ethics infraction might have been – making a false statement in terms of filling out the paperwork on attendance.  I was in the ballpark, […]