The Web site NoEthics.net is interesting, to say the least. It reports information on lawyers, judges, and legislators deemed by the site’s author to be unethical.
I applaud this effort, and wish there was more public awareness of such ethical lapses as mentioned on this site. My concern with some similar sites is that often people forget that anyone can file an ethics complaint against a lawyer, with or without a valid reason. It’s important that we not libel or slander lawyers who have done nothing wrong, simply because a disgruntled client makes up a false complaint.
Here is the mission statement from NoEthics.net:
The Committee continues to focus primarily on exposing attorney and judicial misconduct. The Committee is neither interested in nor engaged in the sport of lawyer bashing. However, the Committee is interested in performing a service for the public that the legal profession is loath to do. Which includes, exposing attorney and judicial misconduct, providing advice on various legal matters, and discussing the numerous faults in our legal system and suggesting improvements.
I formed the Committee in 1993 after realizing the legal profession was not really interested in exposing misconduct or incompetence of it’s members. After repeated victimization by several dishonest attorneys from 1980-1991, I discovered that the Toledo Bar Association and Ohio Supreme Court were not interested in disciplining it’s own. Therefore, I decided to act in their stead. For any individual to take on the legal profession as I have done and continue to do is tantamount to engaging in sado-masochism.
My Web Page allows the browser the opportunity to review detailed treatments on the following subject matters, some of which are completed and some of which are under construction:
- Advice on the need for and employment of an attorney.
- Advice on settling your own claims without employing an attorney.
- Advice on how to determine your legal rights.
- Advice on determining if your attorney is dishonest or incompetent.
- Your legal rights to no-fault benefits if you reside in a no-fault state.
- Names and locations of dishonest and/or incompetent attorneys which are listed by State and/or Regions.
- Exposing attorney and judicial misconduct.
- Why contingent fee contracts should be declared unlawful.
- Why the jury system should be changed.
- Why losers in civil cases should pay.
- Why election of Judges should be declared unlawful.
- Why the procedures to discipline attorneys should be revamped.
- Anatomy of a Venal, Vindictive and Dishonest Judge.
- Expose on the Misconduct of Chief Justice Thomas A. Moyer of the Ohio Supreme Court.
- Anatomy of a Dishonest Psychologist.
