{"id":4758,"date":"2004-03-10T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T01:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/03\/10\/without-secret-lawyer-discipl"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:57","slug":"without-secret-lawyer-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/03\/10\/without-secret-lawyer-discipline\/","title":{"rendered":"Without Secret Lawyer Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1008'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\"><FONT size=\"2\">there wouldn&#8217;t be silly cases like <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.nylawyer.com\/news\/04\/03\/031004a.html\"><FONT size=\"2\">this<\/FONT><\/A><FONT size=\"2\">.&nbsp; (&#8220;<\/FONT><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\"><FONT size=\"2\">Panel Halts Probe of NY Attorney <BR>Who Disclosed Another Lawyer&#8217;s Disciplinary Record,&#8221; <EM>New York Law Journal<\/EM>, by John Caher, 03-10-04)<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\"><FONT size=\"2\"><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/questiondude.jpg\" alt=\"question dude\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; Why shouldn&#8217;t prospective clients have the right to know, <EM>e.g.<\/EM>,&nbsp;that a lawyer has been disciplined for charging an outrageously excessive fee to a prior client?<br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<P align=\"left\">See our&nbsp;post <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/09\/09#a256\">They&#8217;re Indisposed to Disclose Lawyer Discipline<\/A>&nbsp;.<\/P><\/LI><\/UL><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>there wouldn&#8217;t be silly cases like this.&nbsp; (&#8220;Panel Halts Probe of NY Attorney Who Disclosed Another Lawyer&#8217;s Disciplinary Record,&#8221; New York Law Journal, by John Caher, 03-10-04) &nbsp;&nbsp; Why shouldn&#8217;t prospective clients have the right to know, e.g.,&nbsp;that a lawyer has been disciplined for charging an outrageously excessive fee to a prior client? See our&nbsp;post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1eK","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13929,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions\/13929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}