2017 Survey of Indiana Lawyer Discipline Decisions

Abstract

The opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author and do not represent a statement of law or policy by the Indiana Supreme Court, its staff or attendant agencies or organizations. The author thanks law clerk Alexandra Keller for her research assistance and editing in the creation of this work. 1. A private reprimand can result in a published Per Curiam Opinion from the Court. In that instance, the case is captioned as In re Anonymous and the offending lawyer is shielded from identification. An In re Anonymous decision is issued when the Court believes that the actions of the lawyer and the Court's ruling have heightened instructional value to the bar at large.

“Trusted to the ends of the earth?” An analysis of solicitors’ disciplinary processes in England and Wales from 1994 to 2015

“…Each period had a number of cases in an entirely novel category. We suspect that a long view of misconduct cases in other jurisdictions would find caseloads demonstrating both predictable mundanity and unpredictable exceptions (Witte 2018, Covington 2018. Schneyer (2014-15) argues that there is no need to end self-regulation in order to adopt a more proactive regulatory system.…”