Commission Hears Pros, Cons of Uniform Attorney Discipline
New York Law Journal, August 12, 2015
Commission Hears Pros, Cons of Uniform Attorney Discipline
The head of the state’s judicial disciplinary commission and representatives from various bar associations agreed at a hearing Tuesday that the disparities in how New York’s four appellate divisions discipline attorneys should be reconciled….J. Richard Supple Jr., a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Discipline, said that one example of the disparity is that the Third and Fourth departments allow an attorney to appear before the court for oral arguments in disciplinary proceedings, but the First and Second departments do not. Additionally, he said, the Second, Third and Fourth departments have diversion rules for cases handled by attorneys suffering from drug or alcohol addiction while the First Department does not.
