A Miami Lawyer Seeks The Disbarment Of A Washington, D. C. Lawyer In The State Of Virginia
Q: You can read about it in Nalty's loopy post of some tabloid clown in AC-ECW. Makes you wonder what standing or interest a stupefied barrister from Florida would have intermeddling in Clinton's Lawyer Bob Bennett's license to practice law. A fat wad of cash from Dick Scaife or Jerry Falwell perhaps? Just what we need: a rash of disbarments, of the lawyers who represent clients we don't like, that is. While we're at it, let's de-frock the doctors who have the gall to take out the appendix of some mafioso like John Gotti or who deliver the baby of a mobster's girlfriend. And what a convenient venue for the bar grievance committee to blast away an attorney's bridge to his livelihood! Virginia! The great commonwealth with a bar hand-picked by the nabobs and courtesans of the far-right. Kenneth Starr's favorite site for an accommodating, politically-friendly grand jury. Why, the corporate attorneys who domineer the lawyers of Virginia only a few years ago thumped their King James bibles and piously refused to license an attorney who happened to be a lesbian. Until the Supreme Court stepped in and slapped their hands and told them not to do that. And that word "commonwealth," well,
A: -It may surprise you, but all it takes to file a "bar complaint" is a postage stamp. Lawyers are well-aware that this procedure - of state bars requiring no filing fees for bar complaints against lawyers - encourages frivolous complaints by clients who don't win. Most lawyers have had one or more frivolous bar complaints filed against them. Talk about a politicized state bar of political cronies? Go to ARKANSAS - where the state's comparatively-few rich lawyers all represent local grandees tied heavily to Schmucko and Booba; it's "crony capitalism" straight out of Indonesia.