2017's Top 10 Troubled Lawyers and Judges in Texas
Texas Lawyer has been documenting the misfortunes of the legal industry for the past three decades and there was no shortage of them during 2017.
January 17, 2018 at 02:26 PM
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The 90,000 attorneys and judges working in the state of Texas are all sworn to uphold the law and abide by a code of ethics. And because they're supposed to know better, a majority of them manage to make it through the year without getting disciplined, arrested, indicted or sent to prison.
But a few of them don't.
Texas Lawyer has been documenting the misfortunes of the legal industry for the past three decades and there was no shortage of them during 2017. We've compiled a list of the most outrageous allegations and subsequent punishments dished out over the past 12 months for what we're calling “The 2017 Top 10 Troubled Lawyers and Judges in Texas List.”
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