The Georgia Supreme Court will do something Monday that it hasn’t done in a long time-possibly ever. The court is going to hear oral arguments over whether two attorneys should be disbarred, shining a spotlight on a process that’s usually handled out of public view.
The State Bar of Georgia’s ethics lawyers insist partners Steve F. Freedman and Thomas C. Sinowski should be disbarred for using so-called “runners” in the 1990s to drum up business. Although the two Atlanta personal injury lawyers in 2002 admitted they violated rules and agreed to be punished in some manner, for the past nine years they have fought the bar’s efforts to remove them from the practice of law. They argue that lawyers in similar circumstances have been given mere reprimands.
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