MARYLAND (WBFF) — Since 2006, Maryland judicial authorities have disbarred 266 attorneys — a fraction of the state’s roughly 40,000 licensed lawyers — primarily for misusing client funds, neglecting legal work, charging excessive fees, and professional misconduct.
Then there’s the small number who were disbarred for committing violent crimes or lying to a judge.
Judicial authorities disbarred one lawyer after she was charged with being the getaway driver in the armed robbery of an Owings Mills yogurt shop. The Maryland judiciary disbarred another former attorney after she was convicted in Virginia of breaking and entering while armed with a deadly weapon, malicious wounding, and abduction. The judiciary disbarred another attorney for forging a judge’s signature.
Disbarment — the equivalent of a law career death penalty — is the most serious sanction the Maryland Supreme Court can mete out. Reprimands and suspensions are far more common.
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