Word: disbarment
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Moskalenko, however, is not ready to give up on Russian justice, in spite of her uphill battles to make sure local courts actually deliver it. (The government, at one point, unsuccessfully tried to disbar her, and Moskalenko believes that she too may be targeted by enemies.) "The current system is such that the prosecution has a big advantage over the defense," she says. Among Moskalenko's clients are the children of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who reported on human-rights abuses and was slain in October 2006. Moskalenko does not see the acquittal last week of Politkovskaya's alleged contract...
...that Russian lawyer Karina Moskalenko found mercury in the car she had been using since August with her husband and three children. Moskalenko, who pursues the Russian government in international courts for human-rights abuses, now works mostly out of Strasbourg since Russian federal prosecutors sought but failed to disbar her in Moscow. Before authorities found the poison, Moskalenko had complained of suddenly deteriorating health - a frightening parallel to the case of former Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko, her onetime client, who was poisoned by polonium in Britain late...
...mystery didn't last long. As first reported in the Los Angeles Times, Buckhead is Harry MacDougald, 46, a conservative, big-firm lawyer from Atlanta with a history of pugnacious activism. As an advisory-board member for the Southeastern Legal Foundation, he helped write the group's petition to disbar Bill Clinton and worked with former Clinton prosecutor Kenneth Starr to challenge a federal campaign-finance law. As the online avenger Buckhead, he has described Clinton as the "Ozark Caligula." Now identified, MacDougald shuns media attention; as one of his postings claimed, perhaps disingenously: "It wasn...
...Hillary Clinton to stay in New York. An Arkansas Supreme Court-appointed panel has recommended that "attorney William Jefferson Clinton" be stripped of his state law license for "serious misconduct" - his oily-at-best testimony about Monica Lewinsky in the Paula Jones case. Most experts considered the move to disbar harsh, but considering half the panel recused themselves last week because of ties to Bill, a high-profile penalty is maybe not too surprising from the half that was left. Clinton was predictably aghast, and though such a busy president will let his lawyers handle the vigorous appeal...
...Clark committee proposed various remedies-including automatic suspension while disbarment proceedings are pending against lawyers convicted of serious crimes, a requirement that permanent records of those proceedings be kept and that disciplinary actions be publicized. As a national organization, the A.B.A. does not actually disbar any lawyer; state and local bars generally seek such action by state courts. But the A.B.A. has strong influence, and in the past three years many states have begun to heed the Clark suggestions...