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2 May 2019, 5:20 am
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has suspended an attorney for one year with reinstatement conditioned on proof of fitness In this case, the Board on Professional Responsibility adopts the findings of its Ad Hoc Hearing Committee that respondent... [read post]
2 Jan 2020, 7:20 am
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals gets the New Year off with a good start by adopting a recommendation for negotiated discipline In this disciplinary matter, the Ad Hoc Hearing Committee (the Committee) recommends approval of a petition for... [read post]
12 Aug 2021, 4:32 am
District of Columbia Hearing Committee No. [read post]
23 Aug 2017, 5:23 am
The web page of the District of Columbia Bar has posted informal admonitions issued to attorneys in three matters. [read post]
21 Apr 2017, 2:14 pm
The District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility has reprimanded an attorney who in the course of defending a client in a bar disciplinary hearing violated his duty of confidentiality to another client. [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 6:26 am
An announcement on the web page of the District of Columbia Bar should raise a concern for members that I have had for some time - that the recession-proof Bar is soaking its membership as it gorges at the spending... [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 1:52 pm
In a highly unusual decision, a division of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals took back a disbarment it ordered in March and made it a one-year suspension. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 1:49 pm
A District of Columbia Hearing Committee has recommended that reinstatement be denied to an attorney who had consented to disbarment in 2009. [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 5:02 am
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals reciprocally disbarred an attorney convicted of tax offenses and disbarred in New York. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 6:36 am
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals agreed with its Board on Professional Responsibility that a three-year suspension with fitness, rather than disbarment, was the appropriate sanction for a former Holland & Knight attorney. [read post]
1 Sep 2017, 6:27 am
The District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility recommends a two-year suspension with fitness for misconduct in an estate matter On August 28, 2000, Judge [Cheryl] Long appointed Respondent to serve as Personal Representative of the Estate of Arnold Lindsey... [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 9:51 am
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed the grant to summary judgment against a law professor who had sued the David A. [read post]
10 Sep 2015, 4:59 am
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has summarily reinstated an attorney disbarred in D.C. and Maryland as a result of a misprison of felony conviction. [read post]
5 Dec 2017, 2:59 am
As a former but longtime disciplinary prosecutor in the District of Columbia, I am watching the calls for the disbarment of John Dowd with amusement. [read post]
2 May 2019, 5:39 am
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals devoted a day to bar discipline, issuing six opinions that include accepting an 18-month consent discipline and a number of reciprocal discipline matters . [read post]
24 Jul 2017, 10:51 am
A petitioner who had filed for reinstatement in the District of Columbia and thereafter voluntarily withdrew the petition was successful in his attempt to redact portions of the hearing committee report from the public record. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 10:06 am
A recent opinion of the District of Columbia Bar's Legal Ethics Committee is summarized below by the Committee: A lawyer who drafted a brief and affidavit in reliance upon fraudulent factual misrepresentations made by a former client has no duty... [read post]
5 Aug 2016, 7:27 am
A stayed suspension and probation imposed by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals translated into a reciprocal public censure from the New York Appellate Division for the First Judicial Department. [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 11:24 am
A District of Columbia Hearing Committee has recommended a suspension with reinstatement on a showing of fitness for Larry Klayman in a ethics matter brought by Judicial Watch Respondent Larry E. [read post]
22 Jul 2017, 3:22 pm
A divided United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld an interpretation of the airplane smoking ban prohibiting inflight use of electronic cigarettes. [read post]
