Hunter Biden remains in “good standing” with the District of Columbia Bar Association despite being charged with multiple felonies.
Mr. Biden is a lawyer by training, if not profession, graduating from Yale Law School in 1996 and being admitted to the Washington, D.C., bar in 2007.
The lawyer's official seal of approval came despite Biden appearing to violate the lawyer's own code of professional conduct.
“It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to engage in criminal conduct that adversely affects the lawyer's integrity, credibility, or other fitness as a lawyer,” the lawyers noted. official rules.
“Many types of unlawful conduct, including fraud and willful failure to file income tax returns, adversely affect fitness to practice law,” the regulations note.
Special prosecutor David Weiss said the eldest son faces multiple felony charges stemming from allegations that he evaded more than $1 million in income taxes to fund his years of “lavish” living. He now faces up to 17 years in prison.
A conviction is not necessary to discipline a lawyer. Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani's D.C. attorney's license is currently suspended as punishment for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election. He has not been convicted of a crime.
Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor, said Biden's various legal troubles “deserve investigation” in the courts.
“He's admitted to conduct that probably amounts to criminal activity, drug use and things like that, so I think the lawyers need to look into that,” the longtime lawyer said. “A double standard exists. Lawyer discipline is being weaponized by the left against the right.”
Hunter Biden's attorney, Abby Lowell, did not respond to The Post's request for comment.
Hunter Biden pays $331 a year to maintain his bar membership. Although he never actively practiced law in Washington, D.C., he held the prestigious position of “attorney” at Democratic law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP while his father was vice president. He was in charge of
