PA: Lawyer Disciplinary Decisions Will be Publicized More

State officials want to make sure the public knows when a lawyer has been disciplined and they say they intend to do more to spread the word.

The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania is responsible for holding attorneys accountable. It regularly posts information about its rulings online and in legal trade publications, but that goes unnoticed by most people outside of the legal community.
The board has a longstanding practice of publishing legal notices in the classified sections of local newspapers to alert the public about its actions. But that fine print also isn't looked at by many readers. So the board announced earlier this month it would begin sending news releases to media outlets in communities where the lawyers do business to try and garner more headlines.

The board said in a news release it is making the change partly because of a situation earlier this year in Dauphin County where an attorney who was forced to surrender his law license failed to notify his clients, some of whom claimed they were bilked out of millions of dollars.

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