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In re Attorney Disciplinary Appeal

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Sanctions, Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Ethics & Disciplinary Code
In an appeal arising from a decision by the court’s committee on grievances declining to take disciplinary action against appellant’s former attorney,...

Fair v. Bakhtiari

Contracts, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law
In a dispute involving an attorney who entered into business transactions with his clients without the written disclosures required by Rule 3-300 of...

In re Kristan Peters

Judges & Judiciary, Judges & Judiciary, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Sanctions, Ethics & Disciplinary Code
In an attorney-disciplinary matter alleging violations of New York Disciplinary Rules 1-102(a)(5) and 1-102(A)(4), judgment of the district court...

In re. Paul E. Warburgh

Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Professional Malpractice, Sanctions
In an attorney disciplinary matter, the recommendation of discipline by Committee of Admissions and Grievances is adopted where an attorney who is the...

In re: Wick

Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
In disciplinary proceeding of an attorney for fraudulently overcharging is clients, the attorney is ordered disbarred and his request to allow...

In re Colodny

Administrative Law, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Government Law, Judges & Judiciary
In the Judicial Qualifications Commission's (JQC) action against a judge claiming that, during the judge's 2008 judicial campaign, she listed...

Florida Bar v. Irish

Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Professional Malpractice
Referee's report recommending that the attorney be found guilty of professional misconduct and disbarred effective, nunc pro tunc, October 8, 2008, is...

Florida Bar v. Liberman

Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Sanctions, Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics & Disciplinary Code
Following the conviction of an attorney for first degree felony of trafficking in the drug "Ecstasy," a referee's recommendation that the court accept...

Florida Bar v. Hall

Administrative Law, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Legal Malpractice, Professional Malpractice, Sanctions
In an attorney's disciplinary proceedings, arising from forgery and fraudulent recording of a lease agreement and agreement for sale between the...

Bauer v. Shepard

Constitutional Law, Elections, Ethics & Disciplinary Code, Government Law, Judges & Judiciary
In plaintiffs' challenge to certain provisions of the Indiana Code of Judicial Conduct, claiming that they refrain from speaking about controversial...