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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLarry Klayman-A conservative legal gadfly faces the music
I have never liked Klayman and this makes me smile
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D.C. Bar officials contend the famously litigious Klayman misrepresented facts, filed meritless legal pleadings and brought frivolous demands for recusal and an ethics complaint against a judge who rejected the hard-charging lawyers bid to join the defense team at Bundys request.
Klayman insists hes guilty of nothing more than zealous advocacy in the episode. But looming over this weeks hearing is a more epic fight between ethics officials, who say hes made a specialty out of using the legal system to harass his enemies, and Klayman, who contends hes the victim of a politically motivated crusade to end his decades as a legal pit bull for conservative causes and figures.
During the 1990s, as he headed Judicial Watch, Klayman became reviled by many in the Clinton administration for forcing aides into bizarre, almost post-modern depositions that often led the witnesses to incur tens of thousands of dollars in legal bills. His antics eventually inspired the writers of The West Wing to create a toxic, scandal-chasing character, Harry Klaypool of Freedom Watch. Klayman was thrilled and after a rancorous break-up with other leaders at Judicial Watch adopted the fictional name from the TV show as the name of his new organization.
While many on the Washington scene have been waiting for decades for Klayman to get his comeuppance in court, three different ethics cases he is now embroiled in raise questions about how to police a legal system that generally imposes few consequences for filing marginal lawsuits and complaints.
Klayman insists hes guilty of nothing more than zealous advocacy in the episode. But looming over this weeks hearing is a more epic fight between ethics officials, who say hes made a specialty out of using the legal system to harass his enemies, and Klayman, who contends hes the victim of a politically motivated crusade to end his decades as a legal pit bull for conservative causes and figures.
During the 1990s, as he headed Judicial Watch, Klayman became reviled by many in the Clinton administration for forcing aides into bizarre, almost post-modern depositions that often led the witnesses to incur tens of thousands of dollars in legal bills. His antics eventually inspired the writers of The West Wing to create a toxic, scandal-chasing character, Harry Klaypool of Freedom Watch. Klayman was thrilled and after a rancorous break-up with other leaders at Judicial Watch adopted the fictional name from the TV show as the name of his new organization.
While many on the Washington scene have been waiting for decades for Klayman to get his comeuppance in court, three different ethics cases he is now embroiled in raise questions about how to police a legal system that generally imposes few consequences for filing marginal lawsuits and complaints.
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Larry Klayman-A conservative legal gadfly faces the music (Original Post)
Gothmog
Sep 2020
OP
Me.
(35,454 posts)1. Could He Be Disbarred?
Gothmog
(145,489 posts)4. His law license may be suspended for a year
From the Politico article cited in OP
The prosecutor in the Bundy-related ethics case, Julia Porter of the D.C. Bar Office of Disciplinary Counsel, initially pressed for Klayman to be disbarred outright, but later pulled back to a recommendation to suspend him for a year and require him to prove his fitness to return to legal practice.
She says just a year, a reinstatement provision. Im 69 years old. You know how long a reinstatement provision takes? Klayman said. If the sanction that Ms. Porter is recommending goes into effect, Ill probably never practice law again.
She says just a year, a reinstatement provision. Im 69 years old. You know how long a reinstatement provision takes? Klayman said. If the sanction that Ms. Porter is recommending goes into effect, Ill probably never practice law again.
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)8. No pity for the nasty crapweasel
UTUSN
(70,725 posts)2. Big K&R - detestable since the '90s!
oasis
(49,401 posts)3. Klayman pursued President Clinton with a Javertlike obsession. nt
Cha
(297,528 posts)5. Let's hope Klayman gets his Just Desserts! Rt..
czarjak
(11,287 posts)6. Tom Fitton tries to fulfill his legacy to this day. (He's an asshole too)
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)7. Klayman is a disgrace to our profession. This
brings a smile to my face, too.
This man is a disgrace to the profession