I’m no lawyer but I feel like [my client should be able to keep being a lawyer because the conduct you’re trying to discipline for has also made him a co-conspirator in a federal indictment and he’s likely to face charges] is a bad argument.
If you have a reasonable belief that describing your own conduct will hurt you in a criminal case then you can’t also have a reasonable belief that your conduct was within the rules of professional conduct.
I’m no lawyer but I feel like [my client should be able to keep being a lawyer because the conduct you’re trying to discipline for has also made him a co-conspirator in a federal indictment and he’s likely to face charges] is a bad argument.
If you have a reasonable belief that describing your own conduct will hurt you in a criminal case then you can’t also have a reasonable belief that your conduct was within the rules of professional conduct.
“My conduct was above reproach!” “May we examine it, then?” “Of course not! Then it’d be reproached!”