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: Law Blog - WSJ.comScruggs Still Fighting . . . This Time to Keep his Law License
By Ashby Jones
Dickie Scruggs may have pleaded guilty last month to conspiring to bribe a Mississippi judge, but that doesn’t mean all the fight’s been taken out of him. The latest: the famed plaintiffs’ lawyer is scratching and clawing to keep his law license intact. Here’s the latest from the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.
The backstory: Shortly after Scruggs entered his plea, the Mississippi bar asked the state Supreme Court to strip Scruggs of his law license. But Scruggs, led by a new lawyer, Michael Martz, formerly the general counsel of the Mississippi Bar, is protesting the move, saying the complaint is “fatally defective” because no certified copy of the conviction is attached.
If it sounds like Scruggs is trying to swim his way through a loophole, well, Adam Kilgore, the general counsel of the bar, might agree. In the Clarion-Ledger story, Kilgore called the argument “rather strained,” adding that while “Mr. Scruggs’s guilty plea may not as of yet resulted in entry of a final judgment by the federal district court, the formal complaint is not fatally flawed.”
Kilgore asked the high court to deny the dismissal and to immediately suspend Scruggs from the practice of law. If it’s premature to disbar Scruggs, Kilgore responded, “then the court should immediately suspend him from the practice (of) law until such time as a final judgment in his criminal matter is entered.”
This Mississippi high court has already stripped the license of Tim Balducci, who pleaded guilty early on in the case. The bar has moved to rescind the licenses of two others who pleaded guilty more recently: Scruggs’ son, Zach, and Sid Backstrom, one of Scruggs’s former law firm partners.
Meanwhile, all of those who have pleaded guilty are awaiting sentencing. No date has yet been set.
Full post as published by Law Blog - WSJ.com on December 31, 1969 (boomark / email).
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