http://legislativelawbulletin.com Reporting the "differences between law in the books and law in action." Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:39:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://0.gravatar.com/blavatar/a09e0fa4390750d957aecf1c7dd3751e?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://legislativelawbulletin.com http://legislativelawbulletin.com/2010/09/07/just-because-you-aint-practicin-daily/ http://legislativelawbulletin.com/2010/09/07/just-because-you-aint-practicin-daily/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:25:03 +0000 Hugh Brady http://legislativelawbulletin.com/?p=128 ]]> Politicians and their staffers who are also lawyers are reminded by today’s post at the DRI Blog that they “might find themselves subject to disciplinary action for conduct in careers outside of the practice of law” and specifically discusses examples where politician-lawyers were disciplined for “political” conduct and looks briefly at the Rangel case.

]]> http://legislativelawbulletin.com/2010/09/07/just-because-you-aint-practicin-daily/feed/ 0 Brady http://legislativelawbulletin.com/2008/09/18/and-for-all-of-you-lawyers/ http://legislativelawbulletin.com/2008/09/18/and-for-all-of-you-lawyers/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:55:33 +0000 Hugh Brady http://legislativelawbulletin.wordpress.com/?p=50 ]]> The Legal Profession Blog is reporting two recent developments involving bar discipline of lawyers who held public positions. In the first case, a former state senator with “a felony conviction for misconduct in office and being party to campaign contributions in excess of the legal limits” was reinstated as a member of the Wisconsin Bar after serving a two year suspension. In the second case, the Illinois Attorney Registration and Discipline Commission is seeking to discipline a lawyer who served as a non-lawyer municipal official in Chicago. In her municipal offices, the lawyer was responsible for hiring and promoting employees. She allegedly met with the city’s government relations office to receive lists of persons politically connected to City Hall and then bent the city’s civil service system to ensure those with political juice were hired. This politically sensitive hiring ran afoul of a Federal court consent decree barring patronage employment.

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