Attorney Lewis Pitt from North Carolina, who has reportedly spent nearly 20 years working as Legal Aid attorney, went all the way to the Supreme Court of his state to set a procedure in place to be able to relinquish his law license in protest for unethical conduct of the State Bar and its failure to live up to its declared purposes of promoting justice.
In his letter to the Bar, Mr. Pitt reportedly said the following:
"My resignation is because I see an overall breach by the Bar as a whole of the most basic of professional conduct and ethics such that I do not want be be associated with the Bar".
Mr. Pitt said that he tried to change the profession from within for 43 years, but could not do it any more.
According to Mr. Pitt, "there are individual lawyers that have a conscience, but they’re trampled by the system".
Apparently, the trampling by the system of "lawyers with a conscience" is common knowledge, but comes out publicly only when an attorney resigns...
Isn't that a true face of what is really governing the legal profession - money and fear?
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