A lawyer who formerly represented Infowars host Alex Jones has received a two-week suspension for careless handling of confidential documents after an appeals court overturned a lengthier suspension on appeal.
A New York judge who was under investigation for allegedly engaging in discourteous behavior and other alleged misconduct has decided to step down from the bench.
The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that a Palm Beach County, Florida, attorney should be disbarred over professional misconduct, despite a referee’s recommendation that he only receive a 91-day suspension.
A former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice should be compelled to sit for a deposition before a disciplinary review board, a lawyer for the Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation argued in a Feb. 28 motion.
Updated: A Missouri judge has been suspended for a year without pay for taking years to issue some rulings while falsely telling judicial regulators and attorneys that he had delivered judgments to court clerks in unresolved cases.
A Miami lawyer has been disbarred after an uncontested referee’s report found that he filed a notice of appearance while suspended, abandoned a client, and listed an Irish pub as his address with the Florida Bar.
A former partner in the Chicago offices of two large international law firms is facing an ethics complaint alleging that he falsified billing records and caused clients to be overbilled by more than $3.5 million over a period of 20 years.
A former partner at a Boise, Idaho, law firm has been publicly censured after he allegedly tried to entice an associate and a legal assistant to keep quiet about an incident in which he had sexual relations with them at the office.
Should you need a license for that? For law professor and antitrust expert Rebecca Haw Allensworth, there are huge problems with professional licensing in America—and her solutions might not make anyone completely happy.
Updated: The federal government is seeking forfeiture of an Albuquerque, New Mexico, law office allegedly used by a lawyer to launder money in a “DWI Enterprise.”
The Texas Commission for Lawyer Discipline has dropped an ethics complaint alleging that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made dishonest statements in December 2020 litigation seeking to overturn 2020 election results in four battleground states.