Disbarment,also known as striking off,is the removal of a lawyer from a bar association or the practice of law,thus revoking their law license or admission to practice law. Disbarment is usually a punishment for unethical or criminal conduct but may also be imposed for incompetence or incapacity. Procedures vary depending on the law society;temporary disbarment may be called suspension.
Pamela Ann Smart is an American woman who was convicted of being an accomplice to first-degree murder,conspiracy to murder,and witness tampering in the death of her husband,Greggory Smart,in 1990. Smart,then aged 22,had conspired with her underaged boyfriend,then 15-year-old William "Billy" Flynn,and three of his friends to have Greggory (24) murdered in Derry,New Hampshire. She is currently serving a life sentence at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women,a maximum security prison in Westchester County,New York.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida is a federal court in the Eleventh Circuit.
A bail bondsman,bail bond agent or bond dealer is any person,agency or corporation that will act as a surety and pledge money or property as bail for the appearance of a defendant in court.
The United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida is a federal court in the Eleventh Circuit.
The National Bar Association (NBA) was founded in 1925 and is the nation's oldest and largest national network of predominantly African-American attorneys and judges. It represents the interests of approximately 67,000 lawyers,judges,law professors,and law students.
The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP),formerly Law Enforcement Against Prohibition,is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization group of current and former police,judges,prosecutors,and other criminal justice professionals who use their expertise to advance drug policy and criminal justice solutions that enhance public safety. The organization is modeled after Vietnam Veterans Against the War. As of April 2017,they have more than 180 representatives around the world who speak on behalf of over 5,000 law enforcement members and 100,000 supporters.
The Florida attorney general is an elected cabinet official in the U.S. state of Florida. The attorney general serves as the chief legal officer of the state,and is head of the Florida Department of Legal Affairs.
The Florida Justice Institute (FJI) is a nonprofit public interest law firm in Miami,Florida. It was established in 1978 by Randall C. Berg Jr. The institute has been dedicated to improving conditions in Florida's prison system and has initiated numerous class action lawsuits toward this end. Berg is past president of the Florida ACLU. Berg also served on Governor Lawton Chiles' Transition Criminal Justice Task Force and is the past Chairman of the Corrections Committee.
Dave Aronberg is the State Attorney for Palm Beach County,Florida and a former member of the Florida Senate. He was elected to the Senate in 2002 as its youngest member and served for eight years. He is a Democrat.
Ellis S. Rubin was an American attorney who gained national fame for handling a variety of highly publicized cases in a legal career that spanned 53 years. He was famous for his innovative defenses and his propensity for handling lost causes. Rubin won the first case in Florida using the “battered woman”defense. He also worked to free a man,James Joseph Richardson,who had been wrongly imprisoned for 21 years for fatally poisoning his seven children,and created the nymphomania defense in a case involving prostitution.
Pamela Susan Karlan is an American legal scholar who was the principal deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice from February 8,2021,until July 1,2022. She is a professor at Stanford Law School. A leading legal scholar on voting rights and constitutional law,she previously served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Voting Rights in the DOJ's Civil Rights Division from 2014 to 2015.
Pro se legal representation means to argue on one's own behalf in a legal proceeding,as a defendant or plaintiff in civil cases,or a defendant in criminal cases,rather than have representation from counsel or an attorney.
The Alexander Blewett III School of Law is a law school at the University of Montana in Missoula. It was established in 1911 and remains Montana's only law school.
Derek Anthony West is an American attorney and former government official,and the current Senior Vice President and chief legal officer of Uber. Before Uber,West was Associate Attorney General of the United States and general counsel of PepsiCo. West previously served as the Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Division,the largest litigating division in the Department of Justice.
Robert C. Hilliard is an American civil rights and personal injury attorney notable for his United States Supreme Court argument in Hernandez vs. Mesa seeking to hold a border patrol agent accountable for the cross border shooting of a Mexican national,Sergio Hernandez. He also was appointed and served as the nation's lead lawyer for personal injury victims in the General Motors ignition switch recalls litigation,one of the largest civil litigations in the country's history.
Paige Petersen is an American lawyer and judge,who is a justice of the Utah Supreme Court. She previously served as a Utah District Court judge from 2015 to 2017.
