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New York Lets Sex Offender Keep Law License

By Corey Rayburnyung

The New York Appellate Division, First Department has released a divided opinion allowing an admitted sex offender to keep his New York law license. The dissent argued that that man should have been disbarred. You may view the opinion here. From Law.com: An associate who was fired from Kirkland & Ellis in 2004 after admitting he attempted to arrange a meeting "to engage in an oral sexual act" with someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl has been suspended from practicing law in New York for three years. In a rare 3-2 decision in a disciplinary matter, a five-judge panel of the New York Appellate Division, 1st Department, agreed that Steven J. Lever "brought shame to himself and to this State's Bar" by using the Internet "to prey on minors for purposes of sexual gratification...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).