Professional Responsibility Flashcards
When may a court impose sanctions
The court may impose sanctions for a party’s failure to comply with a discovery order. When the party has failed to attend his own deposition, serve answers to interrogatories, or respond to a request for production or inspection, the court may impose certain sanctions, including striking the pleadings but not contempt, without the prior entry of an order to compel these discovery actions
When may a judge issue attachments for contempt
When vile, contemptuous, or insulting language addressed to or published of a judge in respect of any act or proceeding had, or to be had, in court
When should a judge inform the VA State Bar
When the judge has knowledge that a lawyer has committed misconduct that raises a substantial question about the lawyer’s honest, trustworthiness, or fitness as a lawyer in other respects
