Opening an endless period to discipline Texas lawyers for out-of-state misconduct would unfairly place that behavior on the same level as a violent felony, a Texas Supreme Court justice said Wednesday.
“It seems the commission is trying to put this in the same bucket,” as crimes like murder and human trafficking, Justice Rebeca Huddle told a lawyer for the state bar during oral arguments.
Texas has no explicit deadline for punishing a lawyer for misconduct in another state, though the deadline for in-state offenses is four years. In this case, the Texas state bar is seeking to discipline a lawyer ...
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