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A sole practitioner found to have engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct for failing to file reports and practising without a certificate has been suspended for three years and ordered to complete an ethics course.

The Tasmanian Supreme Court has recommended that an ACT solicitor be removed from the roll after it heard that he told his client he had commenced proceedings on her behalf in 2012, but did not do so until 2017. To cover up his deceit, the solicitor lied about the tribunal procedures, opposing lawyers and fabricated documents.

State Bar of Texas Investigating Whether AG Ken Paxton’s Failed Post-Election Lawsuit to SCOTUS Was ‘Professional Misconduct’ Colin Kalmbacher © Provided by Law & Crime Ken Paxton at CPAC ORLANDO, FLORIDA – FEBRUARY 27: Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General, speaks during a panel discussion about the Devaluing of American Citizenship during the Conservative Political Action Conference held in the Hyatt Regency on February 27, 2021 in Orlando, Florida. The State Bar of Te...

The Texas bar association is investigating whether state Attorney General Ken Paxton's failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud amounted to professional misconduct. The State Bar of Texas initially declined to take up a Democratic Party activist's complaint that Paxton's petitioning of the U.S. Supreme Court to block Joe Biden’s victory was frivolous and unethical.

An Air Force officer will face a court-martial at the U.S. Air Force Academy on Monday after allegations of sexual and professional misconduct, according to a news release from the Academy. Maj. Elaine Christian is accused of several violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, including “abusive sexual contact,” abuse of a leadership position, and dereliction of duty, the release stated. In 2019, while working at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School, Christian was accused of gro...

A sole legal principal has been found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct on five charges for her role in a practice that has been targeted by the “phoenixing” technique, which consists of placing people with drug, mental health or other major, personal issues as director of a struggling company.

Solicitor reprimanded, ordered to pay fine for failure to comply  By Naomi Neilson|28 February 2021 A solicitor who failed to comply with an undertaking to retain money in a trust account has been found guilty of professional misconduct and reprimanded.  The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) has found David Hunter guilty of disbursing funds from his trust account despite a written undertaking that he would not until a matter was resolved. He has admitted it was a breach and accepte...