Committee Explores Uniform Attorney Discipline System
During a review of New York's attorney disciplinary system, the leader of the Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection said one unifying rule should be that lawyers who steal from their clients should be barred from practice.
July 28, 2015 at 09:50 PM
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ALBANY – During a review of New York's attorney disciplinary system, the leader of the Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection said one unifying rule should be that lawyers who steal from their clients should be barred from practice.
Timothy O'Sullivan also said Tuesday, at a hearing of the Commission on Statewide Attorney Discipline, that programs to ensure lawyer discipline have been enacted in the First and Second departments of the Appellate Division, but not in the Third and Fourth departments.
Such disparities should be eliminated and one set of discipline rules followed statewide, O'Sullivan said.
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