Quick Facts Who: Spencer Michael Hecht, founding attorney at Hecht & Associates, Rockville, Maryland What: Disbarred by the Maryland Supreme Court for intentional dishonesty and a pattern of misconduc...
From the Thornburgh Memo to the Reno Rules to the McDade Amendment, the Department of Justice has spent four decades trying to exempt its lawyers from state bar discipline. A new proposed rule is the ...
From a Keys attorney who double-booked himself across courthouses to a Texas lawyer convicted of killing two pedestrians, the Florida Supreme Court’s latest disciplinary orders reveal the full spectru...
When 97 percent of a residency program’s physicians trained abroad, in a country where the majority of medical graduates are American-trained, the numbers begin to speak for themselves. A new civil ri...
Ronald Edward Durbin II: The YouTube “Auditor” Who Turned the Practice of Law Into a Weapon How a Tulsa attorney spent fifteen years as a licensed practitioner, reinvented himself as a First Amendment...
By The Ethics Reporter Editorial Board | March 29, 2026 Ariel Mitchell: Miami Attorney Suspended 75 Days for Lying to the Florida Bar, the Courts, and the Press — and the Number That Tells the Real St...
The rules governing attorney trust accounts exist for one reason: to protect clients from the moment their money enters an attorney’s possession until the moment it reaches its intended destination. T...
INTRODUCTION The legal profession has a word for what an attorney does when they cite a case to a court: representation. When a lawyer writes “see Smith v. Jones, 400 F.3d 112 (5th Cir. 2005)” in a br...
The Ethics Reporter Sends Open Letter to All 201 U.S. Law School Deans The Ethics Reporter has formally written to every dean of every ABA-accredited law school in the United States, demanding answers...
When Simone Melissa Gold entered the United States Capitol building on January 6, 2021, she was a licensed physician and a licensed attorney two credentials that together represent years of education...
How a California Family Law Attorney Stole Nearly $5 Million from Clients, Fabricated Bank Records, and Ultimately Lost Her License in Two States INTRODUCTION In the world of legal ethics, few violati...
On Wednesday, February 4, 2026, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department disbarred attorney Jamie T. Ferrara. The disbarment was based on Ferrara’s failure to coopera...