As fellow Law Tribune columnist Norm Pattis recently noted, my former office, the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, has shrunk. It presently is staffed with three lawyers, when it was designed almost 15 years ago to have six. Soon, it may have fewer lawyers yet. That’s not good for an enterprise which is supposed to foster public trust that we lawyers can self-regulate. Problems such as attorney theft and disability require a quick response, regardless of available resources.
At a time when the Judicial Branch is closing courthouses, laying off personnel and cutting programs for kids and recidivists, it’s probably unrealistic to think that any relief on the staffing side will be coming, at least until next year’s budget gets sorted out. So maybe they have got to figure out how to do more with less.
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