Only 17 days remaining, if you want to hire Michael Avenatti as your attorney....

[jberryhill]

While he's been released with an ankle monitor for the time being, Michael Avenatti received further news this week from the State Bar of California.

A regular feature of DU legal commentary is calling for the disbarment of one or another lawyer - usually for things that don't have anything to do with the practice of law in the jurisdiction in which they are licensed.

To get an idea of how long it takes, and how hard it is to actually have a licensing authority revoke a law license, consider the fact that Orly Taitz, the crazy birther lawyer who was sanctioned by two different federal courts for her nutty antics, remains a lawyer in good standing in the state of California.

Well, that gives her one up on Michael Avenatti who, STILL, will remain a licensed lawyer in California until May 4, 2020:



The other good news, of course, is that if he remains released on home confinement, and the Democratic Convention goes virtual, then he'll be able to give his acceptance speech without violating the terms of his release.


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If you are curious about the "acts specified in subdivisions (a) and (c)" of rule 9.20, the pertinent portion states:

9.20 Order To Fuck Yourself

The Court may order such persons as it deems fit to fuck:

(a) yourself;

(b) with such implement as may be further stated; and

(c) the horse you rode in on.

[Hoyt]

1. A man once touted as Prezidential material.

[LuvLoogie]

2. I remain skeptical of Mr. Avenatti.

[Jarqui]

3. Basta'd

How can someone who allegedly stole/misappropriated/misused $ and didn't pay millions in taxes and didn't pay his office rent afford the $1 million bond to live in his house that he can still afford to keep in California?

[treestar]

4. He's the shining example of the

flavor of the day "he ought to be President" syndrome recently applied to Andrew Cuomo. In Avenatti's case, however, it really bit those who said it in the usual place in the back of the person.