EMBED <> More Videos. Visalia attorney could be disbarred for taking $33,000 from auto accident client. VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Richard Rumery's website is still up. But his name has been ...
Apr 20, 2021 · Another Visalia lawyer, Stephen Girardot, was disciplined this year by the bar and is currently unable to practice. In 2017, the bar found that Girardot failed to …
Oct 22, 2019 · ONLY ON ACTION NEWS: According to documents filed with the State Bar Court, Richard Rumery intends to stop practicing law this year and resign from the bar.
Oct 30, 2019 · On Nov. 9, 2018, Gregory Fayard, the attorney hired to represent Rumery, filed a response to the six counts of misconduct with the State Bar Clerk’s Office in San Francisco. In the filing, Fayard claimed Rumery believed he was owed the money for legal services in lowering Delta Health’s initial lien of more than $125,000 down to $40,000 and therefore he did not willfully …
Judicial misconduct. v. t. e. Disbarment is the removal of a lawyer from a bar association or the practice of law, thus revoking their law license or admission to practice law. Disbarment is usually a punishment for unethical or criminal conduct but may also be imposed for incompetence or incapacity.
In 2007, Mike Nifong, the District Attorney of Durham County, North Carolina who presided over the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case, was disbarred for prosecutorial misconduct related to his handling of the case.
In Australia, states regulate the Legal Profession under state law, despite many participating in a uniform scheme. Admission as a lawyer is the business of the admissions board and the Supreme Court. Disciplinary proceedings may be commenced by the Bar Association or the Law Society of which one is a member, or the board itself.
In April 2012, a three-member panel appointed by the Arizona Supreme Court voted unanimously to disbar Andrew Thomas, former County Attorney of Maricopa County, Arizona, and a former close confederate of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.