Comments on Advance Indiana™: IBJ Thinks Disciplinary Commission Needs To Focus More On Rogue Attorneys

‘Illegal alien’ remark leads to attorney’s suspens...

2013-09-13T18:47:42.191-05:00

‘Illegal alien’ remark leads to attorney’s suspension
Representing a father in a child visitation dispute, a Martinsville lawyer’s letter to opposing counsel alleging the mother was an illegal alien resulted in a 30-day suspension.
The Indiana Supreme Court on Friday posted an order suspending Barker for 30 days. According to the order, Barker sent the attorney and presiding judge in a divorce case a letter in 2009 that read:
“[Father] told me this week that he has only seen his baby … one day all year. Your client doesn't understand what laws and court orders mean I guess. Probably because she's an illegal alien to begin with.

Re comments re courts: can an Indiana lawyer make...

2013-09-10T20:12:23.158-05:00

Re comments re courts: can an Indiana lawyer make a remark about the so-called "secret court" that this practicing lawyer had never heard of and likely would never have heard nor even knew of its existence if it were left up to the US's rulers and the NSA and had not been leaked by HERO not traitor Edward Snowden.

Although article in Indiana Business Journal says ...

2013-09-10T20:04:06.688-05:00

Although article in Indiana Business Journal says I. U. "would excise the honorary naming of the William and Jennifer Conour Atrium at the law school" it has not done so. The plaque naming the atrium after him is still in place and an employee told this visitor that the whole big main hall was the Conour atrium. Do lawyers and law schools always have to think like lawyers? Can't they get outside the box and just use plain sense and do what they say they are going to do or do what is right without first getting a court's or someone's prior approval?

Doing the right thing requires the unique discipli...

2013-08-18T12:26:12.338-05:00

Doing the right thing requires the unique discipline of courage.

If an attorney would make an "intemperate&quo...

2013-08-18T11:44:43.518-05:00

If an attorney would make an "intemperate" remark, even outside of Court, that attorney will be vigorously prosecuted by the Disciplinary Commission. Perhaps
you recall the case where the attorney who responded for her spouse to a telephone call from a collection agency asked whether the caller from the collection agency was gay and that drew a suspension for that comment as being offensive and the attorney lacking proper
remorse.

Be very careful what you say, verbally or in writing, even
out-of-Court, if you are an attorney.

It was indeed an excellent editorial. I don't ...

2013-08-18T07:59:17.819-05:00

It was indeed an excellent editorial. I don't think though the Commission always waits for sentencing to discipline someone after a felony conviction. And, of course, the Commission can and has pursued attorneys who for alleged criminal offenses even when the authorities refuse to file charges.

The editorial just scratched the surface of this unequal treatment. There are many, many more examples out there of attorneys not getting charges filed despite serious ethical and even criminal offenses while the Commission is busy targeting people for minor alleged offenses.

This is revealing! It seems that a felony convict...

2013-08-18T02:22:45.296-05:00

This is revealing! It seems that a felony conviction should automatically result in removal from the bar...immediately, upon conviction.

Imagine the client seeking representation from a convicted felon? Does anyone think that conviction would be disclosed prior to representation???