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Via John Wesley Hall’s Law of Criminal Defense:
The Colorado Supreme Court Office of Attorney Regulation today announced that it has filed a petition to immediately suspend Colorado lawyer Francis (Frank) M. Pignatelli from the practice of law. The petition is now pending before Supreme Court Presiding Disciplinary Judge William Lucero.
(Thanks to federal appellate superlawyer Peter [...]
Mark Bennett | January 29, 2009
If, like Francis M. Pignatelli, you moved from Ohio under a cloud and started representing people in Colorado, you wouldn’t even have to read the rules in their entirety to find it; it’s right there in Rule 1.2(a) of the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct:
In a criminal case, the lawyer shall abide by the client’s [...]
Mark Bennett | January 26, 2009
From a post, The Nature of the Job, last October:
Clients sometimes think that they want a lawyer who will act unethically for them, but they don’t: first, because a defense based on lies is almost always doomed to fail; and second, because clients need lawyers they can trust. Unethical lawyers are . . . unethical. [...]
