An Alabama attorney’s appeal of his disbarment for letting clients lie in court and for allowing another disbarred lawyer do legal work for his law firm, was rejected Monday by a federal judge.
“This court does not have the power to review and reweigh evidence that was presented to the bar’s disciplinary panel almost a decade ago, and it certainly has no authority to reverse the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision to affirm the bar’s decision,” Judge Liles C. Burke of the Birmingham-based U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama said.
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