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The Ethics Of Trump's Shadow Lawyers?, Peter A. Joy, Kevin C. Mcmunigal
The Ethics Of Trump's Shadow Lawyers?, Peter A. Joy, Kevin C. Mcmunigal
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The barrage of over sixty failed lawsuits filed by lawyers representing former President Donald Trump and his allies seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election brought forth numerous calls to sanction these lawyers. So far, Rule 11 and disciplinary sanctions have reached one of the most public of the pro-Trump lawyers, Rudolph Giuliani, as well as some of the lawyers who filed and put their names on the complaints initiating the frivolous cases. This Essay discusses the need to impose sanctions on the lawyers behind the scenes—who directed and coordinated the bogus cases—but so far have largely evaded accountability.The authors …