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The prospect of disciplinary action from the State Bar, regardless of whether the County Bar was a voluntary organization or had enforcement capabilities, was sufficient to dissuade all attorneys from quoting a price below the one listed on the schedule.
STAUNTON — The Virginia State Bar has taken action against a Staunton attorney by revoking his license to practice law after he charged clients exorbitant fees for filing motions based on legal ...
The Virginia State Bar reviews complaints against lawyers. There are 17 disciplinary district committees, operating in subcommittees, that review bar complaints in their jurisdiction and determine whether there is sufficient evidence of a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct, and if so, what the appropriate disposition on the ...
The Virginia State Bar Clients’ Protection Fund Board has reimbursed $119,460 to clients billed by a former Staunton attorney for shoddy legal work. Reimbursements of nearly $120,000 made after ...
On December 21, 2001, Morrissey was disbarred in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and on April 25, 2003, his license to practice law was revoked by the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board. [1] He appealed the federal disbarment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. However, the disbarment was ...
West Virginia: October 4, 2018 — Pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud while serving as a Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. [58] Kwame Kilpatrick: Michigan: 2008 — Former Mayor of Detroit pleaded No contest to one count of assaulting a police officer and guilty to two felony obstruction of justice charges. [59]
A former Virginia politician who was jailed over a sex scandal involving a teenage girl leads a crowded field running for mayor of the state's capital city. Poll shows Virginia lawmaker jailed in ...
Spevack v. Klein, 385 U.S. 511 (1967) was a Supreme Court of the United States case in which the court held in a plurality decision that the Self-incrimination Clause of the Fifth Amendment applied even to attorneys in a state bar association under investigation, and an attorney asserting that right may not be disbarred for invoking it.