Pay Your Dues
I am all for the bar disciplining its own,
when the discipline is due.
In the October bar Bulletin there
was one discipline summary about a member who forged someone
else’s name onto an Internet website and made it appear
that that individual, a school teacher, was having sexual
relations with girls at his school. In another case the
lawyer continued practicing law after being suspended for
failing to pay his dues.
The former received a public reprimand,
the latter a 180-day suspension.
I am not sure we have our
priorities straight, but I will make sure I pay my dues.
Norman D. Malbin
Portland
Style Question
If you do continue to publish names of disciplined
lawyers, I would like to suggest that you use the common
title of Mr., or Mrs., or Miss, or Ms., as the case may
be, when referring to that unfortunate soul. The Wall
Street Journal sees fit to refer to Osama bin Laden
as Mr. bin Laden, and I think that we, even in disgrace,
deserve that much respect.
Bruce L. Melkonian
Portland
Editor’s note: The Bulletin generally hews to the Associated Press Stylebook, which eschews courtesy titles and other honorifics. Publications vary widely in their choice of style (contrast the WSJ, for example, with, say, Wired.) A.P. style falls comfortably in between — neither too elite nor too pedestrian — probably the main reason it is so popular with periodicals.
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