Professor Bruce Green was quoted in The Wall Street Journal in an article examining the suspension of Rudy Giuliani’s New York law license.
A New York court suspended Rudy Giuliani’s state law license Thursday after concluding that he made “demonstrably false and misleading statements” in his effort to reverse the results of the 2020 election in favor of former President Donald Trump.
Mr. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, represented Mr. Trump as his personal attorney beginning in 2018 with the Russia investigation. After the 2020 election, Mr. Giuliani led a legal team that laid out sprawling and unsupported allegations of a conspiracy between Democratic officials and foreign governments to steal the presidential election for Joe Biden.
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Bruce Green, a professor of legal ethics at Fordham Law School, said interim suspensions like Mr. Giuliani’s are leveled only for the most serious situations when it is necessary to immediately protect the public, such as when a lawyer has mishandled money or has been indicted or convicted of a felony.