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disbar

[dis-bahr] / dɪsˈbɑr /




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While no further proceedings occurred in New York to permanently disbar Giuliani, the D.C.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2024

Officials in Georgia had been weighing whether to disbar Wood over his efforts, holding a disciplinary trial earlier this year.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

But evidence of additional misconduct during Girardi’s decades of practicing law in California have since emerged, and in January, a State Bar court recommended the state Supreme Court disbar him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

“The plan was to disbar me so I wouldn’t be relevant, and that by and large happened,” he says.

From The Verge ● Mar. 10, 2022

Already he had started proceedings to disbar Kahn, as well as to prosecute him in the courts.

From The Ear in the Wall by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

He worked as a lawyer in Texas before he was disbarred following his conviction in 2014.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Capitol also are among those “indicted, prosecuted, disbarred and/or jailed,” Kimball wrote.

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026

He has since been disbarred in New York and Washington.

From Barron's ● May 3, 2026

Under the bill, the attorney also would be disbarred for a misdemeanor capping conviction if the lawyer “acted knowingly and for financial gain.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

They’d have him disbarred; Bud Gleason would no doubt see that Hirsshorn foreclosed on his house.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

These associations are used to disbarring people who, say, defrauded their clients or were utterly incompetent in court over and over again, et cetera.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2025

The panel could recommend disbarring him, suspending his D.C. law license or formally censuring him.

From Reuters ● Dec. 15, 2022

But she could also go further — assessing additional monetary penalties or recommending grievance proceedings be opened that could result in banning the attorneys from practicing in Michigan or disbarring them altogether.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2021

And the same shortcomings are disbarring the country from attracting large-scale investments in renewables.

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2015

Besides, there had been talk of disbarring him from the practice of his profession, and I, as a lawyer, had been urged to instigate that proceeding.

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Harry Leon Wilson




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