Yes, and . . . medical and nursing licenses are actually harder to lose; (except for that one nurses' aide they accused of drinking during sobriety WITHOUT a positive alcohol test based on the fact that she took communion at church.?!) I suspect - no I know - that while an attorney has to really f up to lose the license, that there is a point at which pulling the practice back together would be easy. Also, solos don't have a support network like firm attorneys do (no cya apparatus) and we tend to get policed MUCH harder than firm attys; and finally, I believe (haven't really done a study but based upon the cases I'm seeing), that black attorneys are also at a higher risk of disbarment.
that black attorneys are also at a higher risk of disbarment.
That's disturbing.
What's just as disturbing as that fact that there are lawyers who really scrape the bottom of the barrel for the most outrageous cases that nobody has any business taking on (anyone with ANY sense or ethics, that is) and yet on and on they go. Kind of like the really AWFUL doctors out there who keep on practicing because no one has enough guts to drop a dime on them.
"Was there anything I could have done, if I'd known?"
It is horribly, horribly sad to lose a licence, on a number of levels. Can you ask her the above question? If you can, she may find it very supportive.
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medical and nursing licenses are actually harder to lose; (except for that one nurses' aide they accused of drinking during sobriety WITHOUT a positive alcohol test based on the fact that she took communion at church.?!) I suspect - no I know - that while an attorney has to really f up to lose the license, that there is a point at which pulling the practice back together would be easy.
Also, solos don't have a support network like firm attorneys do (no cya apparatus) and we tend to get policed MUCH harder than firm attys; and finally, I believe (haven't really done a study but based upon the cases I'm seeing), that black attorneys are also at a higher risk of disbarment.
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That's disturbing.
What's just as disturbing as that fact that there are lawyers who really scrape the bottom of the barrel for the most outrageous cases that nobody has any business taking on (anyone with ANY sense or ethics, that is) and yet on and on they go. Kind of like the really AWFUL doctors out there who keep on practicing because no one has enough guts to drop a dime on them.
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It is horribly, horribly sad to lose a licence, on a number of levels. Can you ask her the above question? If you can, she may find it very supportive.
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