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17 Aug 2021, 1:03 pm
The shocking news that high profile criminal defense counsel was disbarred by consent in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals did not come with any information about the reason for accepting the ultimate sanction. [read post]
28 Jul 2014, 8:27 am
The District of Columbia Bar Legal Ethics Committee has a new opinion on an important real-world issue When a lawyer is seeking employment with an entity or person adverse to his client, or with the adversary's lawyer, a conflict of... [read post]
18 May 2021, 4:25 am
Anyone who wishes to watch a District of Columbia disciplinary prosecution has the opportunity this week in a matter scheduled to commence this morning at 9 am. [read post]
26 Mar 2024, 8:54 am
The Jeffrey Clark District of Columbia bar discipline matter is scheduled to start this morning at 9:30 am. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 6:01 am
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals affirmed the grant of summary judgment to a lawyer in a legal malpractice case brought pro se by the former client. [read post]
31 Oct 2017, 7:38 am
A decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Over two decades ago, the Department of Justice sent a proposed termination letter to one of its Assistant United States Attorneys (“the Assistant”) working in... [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 6:35 am
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has approved the imposition of an informal admonition in a case in which the attorney disclaimed ethical obligations as local counsel to an out-of-state attorney. [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]
1 Feb 2024, 8:16 am
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals remanded a matter involving an attorney who had resigned from its Bar with disciplinary charges pending in another jurisdiction and invoked mandamus in seeking reinstatemrnt in D.C. [read post]
5 1/2 Year D.C. Bar Counsel "Investigation" Leads to Probation That Need Not Be Disclosed To Clients
14 Jul 2016, 4:59 am
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has ordered a stayed suspension of 30 days with probationary conditions of an attorney who had breached the duty of confidentiality and engaged in related violations. [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 6:49 am
It is my fervent hope that the last of these cases from the prior administration of the District of Columbia Disciplinary Counsel - serious matters where the ODC took eight or so years to file charges - are coming to... [read post]
19 Jun 2014, 4:13 am
A District of Columbia Hearing Committee has recommended that two attorneys be suspended with proof of fitness for misconduct in a medical malpractice case. [read post]
25 Sep 2014, 5:40 am
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has imposed the reciprocal discipline of disbarment based on the attorney's disbarment in North Carolina. [read post]
9 Apr 2009, 9:38 am
Yesterday I posted a comment about a consent disposition in the District of Columbia that had generated some controversy and a dissent. [read post]
10 Aug 2023, 1:25 pm
A District of Columbia Ad Hoc Hearing Committee finds misconduct and recommends a six-month suspension with fitness The Hearing Committee finds that the issue in this case is not complicated. [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]
23 Apr 2015, 2:14 pm
I have just returned from the oral argument before the District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility in a case on which I previously have blogged. [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]
8 Jun 2015, 4:21 am
A District of Columbia Hearing Committee has recommended a one-year suspension with automatic reinstatement of an attorney admitted in 2002 for misconduct in failing to pay third-party providers of services in personal injury matters. [read post]
19 Feb 2014, 8:01 am
An attorney who had consented to disbarment in the District of Columbia has managed to persuade New York to impose lesser reciprocal discipline. [read post]