Barred from the Bar: The Process, Politics, and Policy Implications of Discipline for Attorney Felony Offenders
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BARRED FROM THE BAR:
THE PROCESS, POLITICS, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS
OF DISCIPLINE FOR ATTORNEY FELONY OFFENDERS
Brian K. Pinaire,
Milton J. Heumann
Jennifer Lerman *
The bar has . . . been entrusted with anxious
responsibilities .... It is a fair characterization of the
lawyer's responsibility in our society that he stands 'as a
shield,' to quote Devlin, J., in defense of right and to
ward off wrong. From a profession charged with such
responsibilities there must be exacted those qualities of
truth-speaking, of a high sense of honor, of granite
discretion, of the strictest observance of fiduciary
responsibility, that have, throughout the centuries, been
compendiously described as 'moral character.'
. . . [W]hile we have nothing comparable to the Inns of
Court, with us too the profession itself, through
appropriate committees, has long had a vital interest, as a
sifting agency, in determining the fitness, and above all
the moral fitness, of those who are certified to be
Brian K. Pinaire is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political
Science at Lehigh University (B.A., Whitman College, 1997; Ph.D., Rutgers
University, 2003).
Milton J. Heumann is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at
Rutgers University (B.A., Brooklyn College, 1968; M.Phil., Yale University,
1970; Ph.D., Yale University, 1974).
Jennifer Lerman received her B.A. from Rutgers University in 2006.
The authors would like to acknowledge the generous financial support of the
Franz and Class of 1968 and President and Provost's Faculty Development
Funds (Lehigh University) and the Kneller Fund (Rutgers University). An
earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the
Law & Society Association in Las Vegas, Nevada
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