Credit: Weerapat Wattanapichayakul/Adobe Stock Ex-Assistant State Attorney Suspended for One Year for Dishonesty on Judicial Application, Job Interviews
"If respondent's colleagues had believed him, and had hired him based on his statements during the interview, it would have damaged the criminal justice system," the hearing board's report said.
October 04, 2024 at 11:59 AM
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Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
What You Need to Know
- An Illinois attorney will begin a one-year suspension Oct. 11 for lying on a judicial application and being dishonest about trial experiences during an interview.
- In an interview to work as a first-chair trial attorney, Scott Ian Jacobson made false representations about his trial experience and bringing cases before juries.
- The disciplinary process also revealed he had misrepresented his judicial experience on a judgeship application in 2016.
A former prosecutor will begin his one-year license suspension next week for allegedly lying about his trial experience while interviewing for positions as an associate judge and first-chair attorney, the Illinois Supreme Court said.
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