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[dis-bahr] / dɪsˈbɑr /




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That is why the report and recommendation to disbar Giuliani matters.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2023

Maryland’s highest court unanimously voted to disbar Cassilly in 2021.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

But evidence of additional misconduct during Girardi’s decades of practicing law in California have since emerged, and in January, a State Bar court recommended the state Supreme Court disbar him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

“The plan was to disbar me so I wouldn’t be relevant, and that by and large happened,” he says.

From The Verge ● Mar. 10, 2022

At home, however, there have been repeated attempts to disbar Poe from the court of great writers.

From History of American Literature by Reuben Post Halleck

He worked as a lawyer in Texas before he was disbarred following his conviction in 2014.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Capitol also are among those “indicted, prosecuted, disbarred and/or jailed,” Kimball wrote.

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026

He has since been disbarred in New York and Washington.

From Barron's ● May 3, 2026

The State Bar Court will rule on whether Romeyn and Khalifeh committed professional misconduct and could recommend that their licenses to practice law be suspended or that the attorneys be disbarred.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

They’d have him disbarred; Bud Gleason would no doubt see that Hirsshorn foreclosed on his house.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

These associations are used to disbarring people who, say, defrauded their clients or were utterly incompetent in court over and over again, et cetera.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2025

The panel could recommend disbarring him, suspending his D.C. law license or formally censuring him.

From Reuters ● Dec. 15, 2022

And the same shortcomings are disbarring the country from attracting large-scale investments in renewables.

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2015

Air Force’s suspending and disbarring official is monitoring Booz Allen’s handling of the Snowden” case, Dorrian said.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2013

Besides, there had been talk of disbarring him from the practice of his profession, and I, as a lawyer, had been urged to instigate that proceeding.

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Harry Leon Wilson


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