July 22, 2026
Washington, D.C., attorney regulators continue to garner support in their effort to toss a Justice Department lawsuit over alleged "weaponizing" of executive branch lawyer discipline, with D.C. bar organizations, scores of legal scholars and more than 500 former DOJ attorneys backing the disciplinary authorities.
July 20, 2026
Attorneys general in 20 states have raised alarms over the U.S. Department of Justice's "unprecedented effort" to halt a disciplinary case in D.C. against former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Clark, warning the Trump administration is trying to "upend a centuries-old system of attorney discipline" and put federal government lawyers beyond the reach of local disciplinary authorities.
July 13, 2026
The D.C. appeals court and attorney disciplinary authorities have asked a D.C. federal court to toss a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit that accuses them of "weaponizing state bar discipline" against a onetime DOJ lawyer, telling the court that the government suit came too early.
June 08, 2026
The D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel has turned to Sydney Foster, a former U.S. Department of Justice leader now with the Washington Litigation Group, to represent it in a lawsuit from the federal government accusing the ethics office of "partisan and ideological bias."
May 18, 2026
A recent Justice Department lawsuit accusing D.C. attorney disciplinary officials of "partisan and ideological bias" in a case against a former agency lawyer is drawing criticism from those who say it's a continued attack on state bar authorities and would create a special class of attorneys exempt from ethics rules.
May 13, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday sued the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel, D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility, D.C. Court of Appeals and the District of Columbia, claiming that they were "punishing" a former Trump administration DOJ official and trying to "control the executive branch."