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While Justice Paul Thissen concurred in the ruling to disbar Ignatius Chukwuemeka Udeani, he wrote separately to express his continued concern about treating noncooperation with disciplinary proceedings as an aggravating factor.
In Part One of this series on local ethics code, we talked about whether your agency should adopt its own Ethics Code. And, if you decided you wanted to do so, or if you have an existing code you want to review, we discussed the following: to whom does it apply? What conduct is regulated by the code? Does there have to be an actual violation or just an appearance of one? Finally, will your code would allow for advisory opinions? In Part Two of this series, I’ll talk about items that help when dealing with a complaint that someone in your agency has violated your local code, including an ide...