An Important Hearing, A Modest Proposal

The Jeffrey Clark bar disciplinary hearing in the District of Columbia has now concluded its evidentiary phase.

The Hearing Committee announced a non-binding conclusion that a disciplinary rule violation has been proved by clear and convincing evidence. It will make formal findings after receiving briefs from the parties.

Those findings and conclusions will be reviewed by the Board on Professional Responsibility, which (unless it dismisses, which Disciplinary Counsel can appeal) will in turn be reviewed by the Court of Appeals.

In other words (to paraphrase Bette Davis), fasten your seatbelts for a long and bumpy ride.

One modest suggestion. 

The hearing video should now be posted so that the public can review and evaluate the proceeding at its leisure.

At present, it was only viewable in real time.

Now that its done, there is no good reason to suppress the video out of concern that viewng it might taint a yet-to-be called witness. (Mike Frisch)