Excerpts from Complaints of select lawsuits against Colorado Attorney Regulation Counsel
Actual grievances and complaints (what they actually do)
Brown, Kevin
Clements, Charles
Doe, John
Gartin, Steve
Gollehon, Ron
Harrington, Sean
Lewis, Halena
Mann, Beverly
Rivenburg, Rhonda
Sieverding, Kay
Thorup, Dale Kim
White, Fleet Russell Jr.
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Our nation is so dependent on its lawyers, that their ethical problems transform themselves
into public difficulties. Put simply: the ethical problems of lawyers are social and
political problems for the rest of us. . . It is, indeed, a matter of political concern when a
profession —be it medicine, or public administration, or law— has been underregulated, granted too much
power and discretion. . . it is a well-known problem that the [attorney] disciplinary system does
not work very well; in 1970, a committee of the American Bar Association, headed by retired
Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, described self-regulation as a "scandalous" situation,"
finding that a "substantial number of malefactors" continue to practice law.
1 There is little evidence suggesting
any notable improvement since then.
—D. Luban, Lawyers
and Justice (Princeton Univ. Press, 1988) at xviii, xxvi.
1 ABA Special Committee on Evaluation of Disciplinary Enforcement, Problems and Recommendations (1970), the so-called "Clark Report." pp 1, 3. |