List of disbarments in the United States

This is a list of disbarments affecting notable lawyers.

Name	Jurisdiction	Date disbarred	Date reinstated	Reason/Details
Spiro T. Agnew	Maryland	1973	—	No contest plea to bribery and tax evasion.[1]
James Alexander	New York	1735	1737	Retaliatory measure for defending John Peter Zenger from sedition.[2]
F. Lee Bailey	Florida and Massachusetts	2001	—	Misconduct while defending Claude Duboc.[3] Filed for reinstatement in Massachusetts in 2005, but has not yet been reinstated. Applied for reinstatement in Maine in 2013, and approved by a judge of the state's Supreme Judicial Court, but decision appealed by the state Board of Bar Examiners, requiring a rehearing by the entire court. Case heard by the full court on January 14, 2014;[4] the court announced on April 10 that it had voted 4–2 to deny Bailey admission.[5]
Tommy Burnett	Tennessee	1990	2003	Convicted of multiple felonies as a result of the Operation Rocky Top political corruption investigation.[6]
Thomas J. Capano	Delaware	2001 November 15	—	Convicted of murder.[7]
Laurence Canter	Tennessee	1997	—	In part for unethical practices in marketing legal service (i.e. through spamming).[8]
Francis E. Dec	New York	1959 January 19	—	Convicted of 2 counts of second-degree forgery, second-degree grand larceny, fraud or deceit by notary public.[9]
Marc Stuart Dreier	New York	2009 October 8	—	Violation of New York's insider trading statute and General Business Law[10]
Ed Fagan	New York	2008 December	—	Failed to pay court fines and fees in Holocaust Case[11]
Ed Fagan	New Jersey	2009 January	—	Convicted for stealing money from Holocaust survivors.[12]
Stanley Hilton	California State Bar	2012	—	Misconduct[13]
Alger Hiss	Massachusetts	1952	1975	Convicted of perjury[14]
Kwame Kilpatrick	Michigan	2008	—	Pleaded No contest to one count of assaulting a police officer and guilty to two felony obstruction of justice charges.[15]
Egil Krogh	Washington	1975	1980	Convicted of conspiracy to violate civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg[16]
Lewis Libby	District of Columbia	2008 March 20	—	Convicted of four of five felony counts of obstruction of justice, perjury, and making false statements to a grand jury and federal investigators, in United States v. Libby, pertaining to the Plame affair and related CIA leak grand jury investigation.[17]
Lewis Libby	Pennsylvania	2008 December 10	—	Reciprocal with District of Columbia.[18]
Marvin Mandel	Maryland	1982 October 29	1989 July 6[19]	Mail fraud and racketeering.[20]
C. Vernon Mason	New York	1995	—	Price gouging, theft, and abandoning clients.[21]
John N. Mitchell	New York	1975 July 3	—	Perjury[22]
Michael D. Murphy	Texas, Louisiana	1984, 1985	—	[23][24]
Mike Nifong	North Carolina	2007	—	Prosecutorial misconduct while prosecuting the Duke lacrosse case.[25]
Richard Nixon	New York	1976 August 9	—	Obstruction of justice related to Watergate.[26]
Fred Phelps	Kansas	1979 July 20	—	Conduct during his lawsuit against court reporter Carolene Brady.[27]
Fred Phelps	United States federal courts	1989 (ceased practicing)	—	Already excluded from Kansas state courts by his disbarment, Phelps agreed to cease practicing in federal courts as part of the settlement for a 1985 disciplinary complaint by nine federal judges.[28]
Thomas Porteous	Louisiana	2011 January	—	Voluntarily surrendered his state law license after being impeached by the US Senate on December 8, 2010.[29]
Michael E. Reiburn	New York	1935	—	Disbarred for unethical practices,[30] later for the same case sentenced to five years in prison for fraud.
Mitch Skandalakis	Georgia	2005	—	Convicted of making a false statement to an FBI investigator.[31]
Joel Steinberg	New York	1987	—	First Degree Manslaughter[32]
Lynne Stewart	New York	2005	—	Convicted in Federal Court of aiding terrorists and defrauding the U.S. government.[33]
Jack Thompson	Florida	2008	—	Found guilty of 27 counts of professional misconduct, including verbal harassment and intimidation[34][35]
H. Lamar Willis	Georgia	2013	—	Disbarred by the Georgia Supreme Court following ethics violations that occurred in July 2011. The court found Lewis violated a number of rules contained in the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct that govern the legal profession[36]
Joseph Paulus	Wisconsin	2004	—	District attorney disbarred in Wisconsin and New York for using the mail to promote bribery in violation of 18 USC § 1952 and filing a false tax return in violation of 26 USC § 7206 (1).[37][38]
Roy Cohn	New York	1986	—	Multiple charges of "dishonesty, fraud, deceit, and misrepresentation"

References

1. http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=7d19224971c81010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD
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8. "Spamming Lawyer Disbarred". Wired. July 10, 1997.
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13. California State Bar Court: Decision and recommendation
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22. "John Mitchell disbarred". Boca Raton News. July 4, 1975. Retrieved October 15, 2009.
23. Erik Holmes (2006). "Senior Air Force JAG relieved of command". Air Force Times. Retrieved December 8, 2006.
24. "Texas State Bar Member Record for Michael D. Murphy". Texas State Bar Association. 2006. Archived from the original on December 31, 2006. Retrieved December 8, 2006.
25. State Bar verdict on Nifong
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27. State v. Phelps, 226 Kan. 371, 598 P.2d 180 (Kan. 1979) (Kansas Supreme Court opinion)
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29. http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/01/thomas_porteous_impeached_fede.html
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37. http://www.nypti.org/index.php/306-appellate-division-third-department
38. http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2004/April/04_crm_270.htm