In Re Bach’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 8 state decisions

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1. “[W]hile disbarment may appear “draconian” as applied to respondent's conduct, the Board has not defined for us an exception of principle to Addams' rule that does not risk "simply paying lip service" to it. Disbarment under Addams is not reserved for the "most egregious and dishonest" instances of intentional misappropriation, and the Board’s own recommendation of disbarment effectively admits that respondent’s conduct differed only in degree, not kind, from cases in which the Addams rule has been applied unyieldingly. Bach, supra note 1 , 966 A.2d at 352 .”

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