Real Disciplinary Transparency: Ohio Hits A Home Run

As readers of this blog well know, I am a huge fan of and advocate for transparency in bar discipline matters. 

When courts walk the walk (many just talk the talk), I applaud.

Ohio deserves a long and sustained standing ovation for its new online docket feature to matters pending before its Board of Professional Conduct.

As this example located in a single click demonstrates, the reader can get access to the case status, parties and counsel, charges and answer, identity of hearing panels and relevant orders and notices.

This laudable effort puts Ohio in competition with North Carolina as the most transparent disciplinary system in the United States.

An article in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics by my former student Jacquelyn Desch provides an excellent analysis of disciplinary transparency in the United States. (Mike Frisch)