Be Prepared, Because The SEC Is Coming For CryptoLawyers

You better hope you did things by the book, or you could be looking at disbarment or worse.

By Staci Zaretsky on February 06, 2018 2:31 pm

I can’t imagine this will end pretty for our sector. It could be pretty gruesome.

— Professor Aaron Wright of Cardozo Law, who serves as chairman of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance legal industry working group, commenting on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s increased interest in the attorneys who have guided cryptocurrency companies through the “regulatory gray areas” that are initial coin offerings. Lawyers could be barred from SEC practice, fined, disbarred, or criminally charged if they misadvised their crypto-clients.

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