{"id":48040,"date":"2021-01-11T14:48:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T19:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=48040"},"modified":"2021-01-11T14:48:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T19:48:01","slug":"bar-associations-do-not-disbar-lawyers-state-court-administrations-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=48040","title":{"rendered":"Bar associations do not disbar lawyers. State court administrations do"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of people on Twitter have gotten excited because the New York State Bar Association is working to dump Rudy Giuliani’s membership.<\/a><\/p>\n

However, as the sub-heading on that linked NBC article makes clear, a bar association does not have jurisdiction over licenses to practice law. The New York State entity that does is the Office of Court Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The New York State court system is divided into Appellate Departments; lawyers seeking to be licensed apply to the appellate division(s) in which they will be practicing. The department in which I assumed Giuliani was registered was the First Department<\/a>, located in Manhattan (in one of the most beautiful civic buildings anywhere). But when I searched, I did not find him. The search mechanism suggested he might be registered under a different name. I have nothing to say about this, except, “Huh?”<\/p>\n

Feel free to search at the links. You might want to peruse the process for filing a grievance against a lawyer.<\/a><\/p>\n

Or you might have more fun going into my multi-part series — right here on Sidebar for Plaintiffs! — describing how I filed a grievance against a lawyer. The series is called — not very imaginatively — Filing a Grievance Against A Lawyer.<\/a><\/p>\n

I assume only an aggrieved client can file against a lawyer. So as aggrieved as millions of us are over Giuliani and his incitement to violence on behalf of Trump, I’d think only Trump can file against Rudy.<\/p>\n

Oh well. There are other mechanisms.<\/a><\/p>\n

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