Thirty-plus prominent legal figures filed an ethics complaint with D.C.’s Board on Professional Responsibility on Monday to revoke Trump-world attorney Stefan Passantino’s license to practice law, claiming that he tried to influence his former client Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony before the House Jan. 6 select committee.
Ross Garber, one of Passantino’s lawyers, described the complaint as a “transparent effort to smear” Passantino and undermined its validity because it was not filed by Cassidy herself.
That’s sounds like an invitation for Hutchinson to file a complaint to me, one that I would hope she will accept with alacrity.
A) Hutchinson is ~25 years old and needs to get on with her life, which involves rebuilding her career as a capitol staffer in traditional GOP circles. B) Takes money to file a complaint that will stick. C) She plausibly has more credibility as subpoenaed witness and aggrieved victim than she does as bar complaint plaintiff.
Varies from state to state. Every state has its own attorney discipline structure with widely varying degrees of strictness. NC tends to be a pretty hard core state on initiating proceedings but you really have to work at it to get yourself disbarred on your first trip to the grievance committee. They tend to hand out lesser sentences first-private reprimand, public reprimand, suspension, and then disbarrment.
Unless you make a practice over decades of abusing your position to coerce young female clients and staff to submit to spankings, touch a fifteen year old girl on the inner thigh in a hot tub or steal or misappropriate one single penny of client funds in the firm trust account. Those are all one-strike offenses. Major felonies involving dishonesty too, of course.