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The bar association pursued its own lawsuit against Paxton in 2022, and at the time, the committee said it sought to punish Paxton through disciplinary action as an attorney and not as a public official. The bar complaint alleged that Paxton “misrepresented” facts to the Supreme Court in the suit seeking to overturn Biden’s victory.
The State Bar of Texas initially declined to take up a Democratic Party activist's complaint that Paxton's petitioning of the U.S. Supreme Court to block Joe Biden’s victory was frivolous and ...
Webster, along with Paxton, faces a disciplinary complaint from the Commission for Lawyer Discipline, a standing committee of the State Bar of Texas, based on allegations that the official filed a ...
Former real estate developer and lawyer pleaded guilty to 18 counts of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering. [ 65 ] [ 66 ] Served 14 months at Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery in Alabama [ 67 ] [ 68 ] before being sent to a halfway house in Newark, New Jersey , to complete his sentence [ 67 ] [ 68 ] [ 69 ] and was ...
James C. Harrington is a Texas civil rights lawyer and founder of the Texas Civil Rights Project. Dedicated to social justice, he fought for workers' rights alongside Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers. Harrington had a reputation for taking on powerful adversaries, including the Texas Supreme Court and the Texas State Bar. He worked on a ...
Attorney misconduct is unethical or illegal conduct by an attorney. Attorney misconduct may include: conflict of interest, overbilling, false or misleading statements, knowingly pursuing frivolous and meritless lawsuits, concealing evidence, abandoning a client, failing to disclose all relevant facts, arguing a position while neglecting to disclose prior law which might counter the argument ...
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The group is advised by David Brock, who described the idea of the 65 Project as bringing attorney bar complaints, and to "shame them and make them toxic in their communities and in their firms". [5] [2] In the same 2022 interview with Axios, Brock said the project would target the livelihood and reputations of the attorneys. [4]