Professional misconduct is the most common reason for attorney discipline. Lawyers can also be disciplined for conduct in their personal lives.
Most people are surprised to learn that eight lawyer-presidents did so. In addition to Harrison and Taft, the advo-cates were John Quincy Adams, James Polk, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, and Richard Nixon.
However, when practising law, lawyers can only provide legal assistance, advice, and counselling to their clients while an attorney can represent clients in court and initiate defendant prosecutions in addition to providing legal counsel and consultation.
Presidents who were lawyers but did not attend law school include: John Adams; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; James Monroe; John Quincy Adams; Andrew Jackson; Martin Van Buren; John Tyler; James K.
In all, 25 of the 44 men to hold the office of President have been lawyers. Before taking office, many other presidents previously served as soldiers, farmers, businessmen or teachers. However, the large number of presidents who were able to leverage prior legal experience into public service is telling.
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As a young country lawyer, Jefferson practiced law on a circuit, following the meetings of the colonial court as it traveled to various district seats throughout Virginia.
Judge Amodeo was unavailable when her petition was heard. The substitute judge heard the story and gave the mother a protective order, custody and limited the father to visitation at the discretion of the mother. The mother allowed regular visitation but only for a few hours at a time during the day.
The abusive father asked the court for permission to move to Texas with the children. The judge ordered the mother to appear on short notice without an attorney and without the advocates who supported her during every other appearance. It appears this is what he was waiting for. The judge kept making statements supporting the father and the mother kept saying objection in order to preserve her right to appeal. When I was her attorney and would object the judge would say I had my exception and then I would stop. Instead the judge never told her she had her exception but yelled at her and threatened her with contempt if she didn’t stop. She was afraid she would be waiving her right to appeal which was her only chance to save her children. Judge Amodeo treated her objections as if it constituted contempt and sent her to jail for almost a month when she was 7-months-pregnant.
One of the critical mistakes custody courts routinely make is to take each incident and each case separately. In doing so, they miss the patterns that are so critical to recognizing domestic violence. The incident based approach discourages courts from considering the motives of alleged abusers, particularly those who had limited involvement with the children until the mother decided to leave.
The “settlement” occurred in the middle of the trial before the judge could hear most of the mother’s witnesses. The judge warned the parents that if either interfered with the shared parenting arrangement they would be severely punished. The father continued to stalk and harass the mother and children.
The couple’s counselor and son’s therapist testified this constituted sexual abuse. The mother called 12 witnesses including five experts plus the school nurse. The nurse described the difference in the girl after the judge took her mother away.
The father abused both the mother and children. After a period of abandoning the family, the father used the standard abuser tactic of seeking custody in order to pressure the mother to return or punish her for leaving.
This tactic did not derail the success in Quincy because at the time this was a rare tactic. Today it is a standard abuser tactic for the most dangerous abusers to seek custody in order to regain control over their victims.