Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell will remain free while he appeals his corruption convictions, a federal court ruled Monday.

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The Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board has suspended former Gov. Bob McDonnell's license to practice law, citing his felony public corruption convictions.

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The state’s top court has sanctioned two attorneys by consent this month.

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An Abingdon-based lawyer is being indefinitely suspended for ignoring client calls and emails, failing to file essential court documents and helping a disbarred attorney practice law.

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Nearly three years after the hearing in her disciplinary case, Maryland’s top court last week unanimously ordered the disbarment of an attorney for her extreme lack of diligence.

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An attorney who lied about the status of a complaint, failed to keep clients informed and did not promptly return unearned fees was immediately disbarred one day after oral arguments in her case.

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Maryland’s top court took a dim view Monday of attorneys who not only evade taxes but help others do so as well and who dip into their client fund, disbarring one tax-averse attorney and indefinitely suspending another for at least six months.

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Maryland’s top court Wednesday disbarred an attorney, by a vote of 5-2, for having an intimate relationship with her client in a divorce and child custody proceeding, having a financial interest in his child-support obligation, communicating directly with the opposing party and lying to bar counsel.

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A longtime Bethesda lawyer with an otherwise unblemished disciplinary record has been suspended indefinitely for misrepresenting to clients that he could help them avoid foreclosure, while he was actually delegating the bulk of the work to a loan-modification business with which he had a consulting agreement.

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Longtime appellate advocate Mark L. Gitomer has consented to disbarment amid “multiple” complaints of ethical lapses filed with the Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland, according to court documents.

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