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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 Aug 2017, 11:09 am
A decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted the recusal of a judge in the case arising from the September 11 attacks Petitioner Khalid Shaikh Mohammad is a detainee at Guantanamo Bay,... [read post]
15 Dec 2016, 8:59 am
A recent informal admonition posted on the web page of the District of Columbia Bar We opened an investigation based upon a review of the Memorandum Opinion and Order in United States v. [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 9:11 am
District of Columbia Hearing Committee No. [read post]
12 Sep 2016, 5:33 am
The District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility has published the schedule of hearings to be conducted before Hearing Committees in the near future. [read post]
12 May 2015, 7:39 am
A former colleague brought to my attention this footnote in a 2005 District of Columbia Court of Appeals opinion that had rejected an attorney's claims based on a three-year delay in the filing of the hearing committee report Although we... [read post]
13 Jul 2015, 5:33 am
The District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility has approved and forwarded to the Court of Appeals a consent disbarment of an attorney Law360 had this story on the attorney's problems with the SEC A D.C. [read post]
5 Aug 2017, 5:38 am
The District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility rejected an attorney 's request for confidential discipline for a violation of the duty to communicate with a client It is undisputed that Respondent violated Rule 1.4(a). [read post]
1 Feb 2023, 12:32 pm
A District of Columbia Hearing Committee recommends a 60-day suspension with fitness for an attorney's misconduct in civil litigation and failure to respond to the bar investigation. [read post]
1 May 2015, 5:22 am
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals will face a formidable task in reviewing the execrable Worst Report in its disciplinary history when it hears oral argument on June 3, 2015 in the case of In re Szymkovicz et al.... [read post]
24 Mar 2014, 8:03 am
An attorney admitted in both Maryland and the District of Columbia was suspended in D.C. as a result of his claim that he suffered from a mental illness that made him unable to defend bar charges. [read post]
8 Nov 2016, 8:08 am
The Legal Ethics Committee of the District of Columbia Bar has just issued two opinions on social media use. [read post]
7 Jun 2019, 5:23 am
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has imposed identical discipline based on sanctions ordered in Texas On consideration of the two separate certified orders from the state of Texas wherein respondent admitted that in one case he threatened a... [read post]
16 Apr 2020, 5:40 am
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals imposed disbarment in a reciprocal discipline matter from Virginia, which had suspended the attorney for a year and a day. [read post]
7 Mar 2024, 7:24 am
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has ordered a 60-day suspension with reinstatement conditioned on proof of fitness of an attorney admitted in 1979 for misconduct found in representing a client in a New York sales tax matter Mr.... [read post]
6 Mar 2024, 10:09 am
A report and recommendation issued today by the District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility is unusual for its lack of unanimity and even split on the proper sanction The Board on Professional Responsibility hereby submits its unanimous findings of... [read post]
16 Apr 2018, 4:58 am
There is a Rule in the District of Columbia that permits reinstatement of disbarred attorneys without any public notice or hearing if the petition is not opposed by Disciplinary Counsel. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 8:52 am
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals approved a consent disposition and imposed a public censure on an attorney who engaged in an intimate relationship with former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick while serving as a court-appointed monitor of two consent... [read post]
1 Oct 2014, 5:44 am
A District of Columbia Hearing Committee has taken the unusual step of recommending a more severe sanction than that proposed by the Office of Bar Counsel. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 10:58 am
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals disagreed with its Board on Professional Responsibility and disbarred an attorney found to have engaged in flagrant dishonesty. [read post]
