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This is a list of disbarments affecting notable lawyers in the United States.

Name Jurisdiction(s) Date disbarred Date reinstated Reason/Details
Spiro T. Agnew Maryland May 2, 1974 — No contest plea to bribery and tax evasion.[1][2]
James Alexander New York April 16, 1735 1737 [citation needed] Retaliatory measure for defending John Peter Zenger from sedition.[3][4]
F. Lee Bailey Florida 2001 — Misconduct while defending Claude Duboc.[5] Filed for reinstatement in Massachusetts in 2005, but has not yet[when?] been reinstated.[citation needed] 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;[6] the court announced on April 10 that it had voted 4–2 to deny Bailey admission.[7]
Massachusetts April 11, 2003 — Reciprocal with Florida.
Paul Bergrin New Jersey December 9, 2016 — Suspended in 2009, and disbarred in 2016, following his conviction of numerous felonies, including conspiracy to murder a witness.
New York January 14, 2010 — Suspended in 2009, and disbarred in 2010, following his guilty plea to two counts of conspiracy to promote prostitution.
Rod Blagojevich Illinois May 18, 2020 — Former Governor of Illinois impeached and removed from office for corruption,[8][9] which includes racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud, extortion, conspiracy, attempted extortion, bribery, and making false statements to federal agents.[10]
Eric Louis Boetzel New York February 13, 1920 Former Assistant District Attorney. Convicted and sentenced to two years in prison for mail fraud.[11]
Frank J. Brasco New York 1973 — Received five years in prison upon conviction of federal bribery and conspiracy charges.[12][13]
Tommy Burnett Tennessee 1990 2003 Convicted of multiple felonies as a result of the Operation Rocky Top political corruption investigation.[14]
Thomas J. Capano Delaware November 15, 2001 — Convicted of murder.[15]
Laurence Canter Tennessee 1997 — In part for unethical practices in marketing legal service (i.e. through spamming).[16]
Mark Ciavarella Pennsylvania October 31, 2019 — Former president judge of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas along with Michael Conahan convicted for the Kids for Cash scandal and currently serving 28 years in federal prison.[17][18] He was originally disbarred in February 2009 along with Conahan before losing his law license for good ten years later.[19][20][21][22][23][24]
Harry E. Claiborne Nevada 1986 — Former United States District Judge for the District of Nevada impeached from office for tax evasion.[25]
Daniel H. Coakley Massachusetts May 12, 1922 — Found guilty of deceit, malpractice, and gross misconduct.[26]
Michael Cohen New York February 26, 2019 — Pled guilty to lying to Congress and violating campaign finance law.[27]
Roy Cohn New York June 23, 1986 — Unethical and unprofessional conduct of misappropriation of clients' funds, lying on a bar application and pressuring a client to amend his will in Cohn's favor.[28][29]
Robert Frederick Collins Louisiana January 9, 1995 — Served five years in prison for bribery.[30][31]
Michael Conahan Pennsylvania February 2009 — Former president judge of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas along with Mark Ciavarella convicted for the Kids for Cash scandal.[17][18] Sentenced to 17.5 years in prison, Conahan was transferred in 2020 to home confinement, with an anticipated release date of 2026, under a provision of the CARES Act that authorized such transfers as a response to the COVID19 pandemic.[22][23][24]
William J. Corcoran Massachusetts 1921 — Found guilty of conspiring with Middlesex County District Attorney Nathan A. Tufts to use the threat of criminal indictment to extort money from people.[32]
Edward DeSaulnier Massachusetts January 11, 1972 — Accepting bribes from a criminal defendant[33]
Marc Stuart Dreier New York October 8, 2009 — Violation of New York's insider trading statute and General Business Law[34]
Ed Fagan New York December 2008 — Failed to pay court fines and fees in Holocaust Case[35]
New Jersey January 2009 — Convicted for stealing money from Holocaust survivors.[36]
Thomas Finneran Massachusetts 2010 — Plead guilty to criminal obstruction of justice.[37]
Joe Ganim Connecticut March 2003 — Mayor of Bridgeport resigned from office upon his conviction for one count each of racketeering, extortion, racketeering conspiracy, and bribery; two counts of bribery conspiracy; eight counts of mail fraud, and two counts of filing a false tax return.[38][39] He was released in 2010 after serving seven years in prison and worked for his family's law firm as a legal assistant before getting his old job back as mayor in 2015.
Rudy Giuliani New York July 2, 2024 — False allegations about mass voter fraud and his participation in the January 6, 2021, Attack on the United States Capitol in an effort to subvert the 2020 Presidential Election.[40][41]
District of Columbia September 26, 2024 — Reciprocal with New York State.
David E. Harrison Massachusetts 2006 — Found to have interfered with the Commission on Judicial Conduct's inquiry of his conduct during a Gloucester, Massachusetts zoning board hearing.[42]
Stanley Hilton California 2012 — Misconduct[43]
Alger Hiss New York 1952 1975 Convicted of perjury[44]
Abraham J. Isserman New Jersey 1952 June 30, 1961[45] Contempt of court during Foley Square trial, and failure to disclose conviction for statutory rape [46]
Andrew Jenkins New York 1991 — Sentenced to one year and one day in jail for money laundering[47][48][49][50]
E. Stewart Jones, Jr. New York July 18, 2024 — admitted misappropriating client funds, mingling, and improperly bookkeeping.[51]
Kathleen Kane Pennsylvania March 2019 — Resigned from the office of Pennsylvania Attorney General upon her conviction for perjury, obstruction of justice and related charges for illegal activities while holding office.[52][53][54][55] Her law license was suspended in September 2015 before being revoked four years later.[56][57]
Menis Ketchum West Virginia October 4, 2018 — Pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud while serving as a Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.[58]
Kwame Kilpatrick Michigan 2008 — Former Mayor of Detroit pleaded No contest to one count of assaulting a police officer and guilty to two felony obstruction of justice charges.[59] Granted a pardon by then-President Donald Trump less than 12 hours before his term ended.[60]
Egil Krogh Washington 1975 1980 Convicted of conspiracy to violate civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg[61]
Charles Kushner New Jersey,[62] New York,[63] and Pennsylvania[64] 2005 — Former real estate developer and lawyer pleaded guilty to 18 counts of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering.[65][66] Served 14 months at Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery in Alabama[67][68] before being sent to a halfway house in Newark, New Jersey, to complete his sentence[67][68][69] and was released August 25, 2006.[70] Received a federal pardon by then-President Donald Trump (who is his son, Jared's father-in-law) December 23, 2020.
Lewis Libby District of Columbia March 20, 2008 — 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.[71]
Pennsylvania December 10, 2008 — Reciprocal with District of Columbia.[72]
Richard P. Liebowitz New York March 13, 2024 — [73]
G. Gordon Liddy New York 1973 — Mastermind behind the Watergate burglary and refused to testify at Nixon's trial, resulting in a sentence of 52 months out of his 20 years in prison.[74][75][76][77]
Ed Mangano New York October 8, 2019 — Former County Executive of Nassau County convicted of bribery and corruption along with his wife Linda and former Oyster Bay Town supervisor John Venditto.[78] With he and his wife having been sentenced to 20 years in prison, he did not seek reelection for a third term.[79][80][81]
Marvin Mandel Maryland October 29, 1982 July 6, 1989[82] Mail fraud and racketeering.[83]
C. Vernon Mason New York January 26, 1995 — Price gouging, theft, and abandoning clients.[84]
John N. Mitchell New York July 3, 1975 — Perjury[85]
Richard "Alex" Murdaugh South Carolina July 12, 2022 — Murder of his wife and son.[86]
Michael D. Murphy Texas and Louisiana 1984, 1985 — [87][88]
Mike Nifong North Carolina 2007 — Prosecutorial misconduct while prosecuting the Duke lacrosse case.[89]
Richard Nixon New York August 9, 1976 — Obstruction of justice related to Watergate.[90]
Joseph C. Pelletier Massachusetts May 8, 1922 — Removed from the office of Suffolk County, Massachusetts District Attorney for using his office to aid in blackmail and extortion.[91]
Fred Phelps Kansas July 20, 1979 — Conduct during his lawsuit against court reporter Carolene Brady.[92]
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.[93]
Thomas Porteous Louisiana January 2011 — Former United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana who voluntarily surrendered his state law license after being impeached by the United States House of Representatives and removed from office by the United States Senate on December 8, 2010.[94]
Michael E. Reiburn New York 1935 — Disbarred for unethical practices,[95] later for the same case sentenced to five years in prison for fraud.
Stewart Rhodes Montana December 8, 2015 — Leader of the Oath Keepers disbarred by the Montana Supreme Court for conduct violating the Montana Rules of Professional Conduct, after refusing to respond to two bar grievances filed against him in the federal district court of Arizona.[96][97] Several years after disbarment, he was also a participant of the January 6 United States Capitol attack, with which he was convicted of November 2022 and sentenced to 18 years in prison.[98][99]
Paul J. Sheehy Massachusetts 1975 — Convicted of bank fraud and three counts of making false statements in Lowell Bank and Trust Co.'s books.[100]
Mitch Skandalakis Georgia 2005 — Convicted of making a false statement to an FBI investigator.[101]
Joel Steinberg New York 1987 — First Degree Manslaughter[102]
Lynne Stewart New York 2005 — Convicted in Federal Court of aiding terrorists and defrauding the U.S. government.[103]
Pat Swindall Georgia 1996 — Sentenced to one year in prison and paid a fine of $30,450 for perjury related to a money laundering in his involvement in a drug trafficking operation.[104][105][106][107]
Andrew Thomas Arizona April 2012 — Former Maricopa County attorney launched unethical attacks on political enemies, filed malicious and unfounded criminal charges and committed perjury.[108][109]
Jack Thompson Florida 2008 — Found guilty of 27 counts of professional misconduct, including verbal harassment and intimidation[110][111]
Jerome P. Troy Massachusetts 1973 — An investigation by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court found that Troy, a Judge of the Dorchester District Court, had lied under oath while answering questions in a lawsuit brought by an insurance company following his wife's death, pressured an attorney into making a political contribution to Francis X. Bellotti, "willfully directed the filling of Tenean Creek in an illegal manner" and subsequently lied during his testimony in a suit brought against him for the filling, had a court officer work on his marina project during court hours, and obtained free legal services from attorneys who practiced in his court.[112]
Nathan A. Tufts Massachusetts June 19, 1922 — Found guilty of misconduct or breach of his duties as Middlesex County, Massachusetts District Attorney. His malfeasance included extorting money from Paramount Studio who attended a party at Mishawum Manor, a Woburn, Massachusetts brothel and falsely reporting the location of an escaped murder's capture to shield those who aided the fugitive from prosecution.[113]

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