Lawyer Begs To Be Disbarred In Obnoxious Letter To Bar Discipline Authorities, Gets What He Wants

He probably didn't think that was going to happen...

onSeptember 27, 2019 at 4:16 PMSeptember 27, 2019 at 2:25 PM

Please don’t kill trees, waste taxpayer resources and ODC personnel on me. ODC has no credibility or legitimacy to me. Or the drivel you generate. You are simply dishonest lawyers who do nothing to regulate dishonest lawyers. And racists to boot. Rather than wasting time, money, and paper on your sophistries, please disbar me. Disbarment by ODC would be an honor. To date, aside from competing in the triathlon world championships, my greatest honors are my PhD from UCLA and my law degree from Boalt. But a disbarment letter from ODC will be framed and go up right alongside those diplomas. Please do me the honor of disbarring me. I will be so very very proud.

— Soon-to-be disbarred attorney Glenn Stephens, in an email sent to the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel, where he “unequivocally, and colorfully, sought to be disbarred,” rather than respond to or participate in any of the four discplinary matters that had been brought against him during his time investigating employment complaints at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Earlier this week, D.C. Court of Appeals Board on Professional Responsibility happily obliged Stephens, recommending that he be “disbarred without an analysis of the merits of his case” due to his “clear request that he be disbarred.”

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