In Re Schneider’s Empirical Analysis

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37 state decisions

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1. “Documents are an attorney's stock in trade, and should be tendered and accepted at face value in the course of professional activity. If an attorney knowingly proffers altered documents in a context where the attorney knows or should know that action may be taken thereon, the attorney has engaged in conduct involving deceit in violation of [Rule 8.4(c)], whatever the ultimate intent or motives may have been in making such alterations. The latter may go to sanction, but not to the threshold issue of violation vel non. [internal footnote omitted]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Lawrence

2. “where `this court has had little occasion to pass upon conduct such as was involved in that case and here, and therefore our role in reviewing the Board's recommendation may be more assertive than in more familiar types of misconduct.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Cleaver-Bascombe

3. “It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to: ... (c) Engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Scanio