disbarment

disbarment
index disqualification (rejection), exclusion, expulsion, ostracism

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


disbarment
See: disbar
Category: Small Claims Court & Lawsuits
Category: Working With a Lawyer

Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. . 2009.


disbarment
n. The act of revoking an attorney's license to practice law, usually because he or she has committed a crime or violated a legal rule of ethics.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.


disbarment
Form of discipline of a lawyer resulting in the loss (often permanently) of that lawyer's right to practice law. (See censure or suspension.)

Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.

disbarment
n.
   the ultimate discipline of an attorney, which is taking away his/her license to practice law, often for life. Disbarment only comes after investigation and opportunities for the attorney to explain his/her improper conduct. Sometimes an attorney may be reinstated upon a showing of rehabilitation and/or cure.
   See also: disbar

Law dictionary. . 2013.

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  • Disbarment — Dis*bar ment, n. Act of disbarring. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • disbarment — See disbar. * * * ▪ law       the process whereby an attorney is deprived of his license or privileges for failure to carry out his practice in accordance with established standards. Temporary suspension may be employed if some lesser punishment… …   Universalium

  • disbarment — Act of court in suspending attorney s license to practice law. A disbarment proceeding is neither civil nor criminal action; it is special proceeding peculiar to itself, disciplinary in nature, and of summary character resulting from inherent… …   Black's law dictionary

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  • disbarment — The revocation by judgment or order of court of the right of an attorney at law to practice. 7 Am J2d Attys § 12. See grounds for disbarment …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • disbarment — disbar ► VERB (disbarred, disbarring) 1) expel (a barrister) from the Bar. 2) exclude. DERIVATIVES disbarment noun …   English terms dictionary

  • disbarment proceeding — A proceeding instituted by an aggrieved client, the state s attorney, a bar association, a committee of a bar association, an individual attorney at law, or a group of attorneys at law not constituting a committee of a bar association, or… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • disbarment — noun see disbar …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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