Lawyer Suspended for One Year in N.Y. for Sex Assault as Student

A lawyer was suspended from practice in New York for one year for assaulting another student while he was in law school.

Joseph McClain assaulted a female freshman at a party at Bucknell University in 2008, when McClain was a first-year law student at another school. Although the victim didn’t initially press charges, she decided to prosecute in 2020, and McClain was hit with a two-count criminal information in Pennsylvania alleging simple assault and indecent exposure.

McClain pleaded guilty to those charges in 2021. He was sentenced sentenced to two years of probation on the indecent exposure charge and 10 ...