This week sees a rare instance of media publicity regarding something perceived to itself be a rare event (but for which it is difficult to prove that the perception is also reality) – the rejection of a negotiated conditional guilty plea in a lawyer discipline case that had been approved by a hearing panel, and […]
Tag: Suspension
The story of a Virginia lawyer who has now been suspended for 6 months as a result of apparently drinking and being drunk while in attendance at a CLE event is making the rounds. There is a part of me that is a bit surprised that something like this does not happen more often […]
Another of the lawyers I spoke about some at last year’s Ethics Roadshow is back in the news. As an example of the power of disciplinary authorities to pursue emergency suspensions on an indefinite basis when a lawyer is perceived to be a threat to the public, we highlighted the travails of a Florida lawyer […]
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A 2014 Ethics Roadshow update
For those of you who may have watched my 2014 Ethics Roadshow in person or online, you may recall that one of the lawyers whose plight we discussed was the former General Counsel for South Carolina State University. He had been indefinitely suspended from practice after pleading guilty to misprision of a felony arising from […]