Genuinely cannot believe this isn’t already the case. ABA and AMA both need to mandate this shit and allow themselves to ban people from practicing if they cannot abide by decency.

In most states, this would disqualify him if I client asked for him to be disqualified. But in a state like Texas that’s just woke.

Well, that's kind of what Model Rule 8.4(g) is aimed at, isn't it? That's a debate that's been happening since at least 2019: www.americanbar.org/groups/const...

Correction: Model Rule 8.4(g) was adopted in 2016, and some version of it was debated as early as 1994. I think the problem is that many states have made a conscious decision not to adopt it, including Texas.

Thanks. This does help. I do wish they would advocate for its adoption more forcefully, but I get that politics may not allow that right now.

I'm not sure when they decided that there being "no rule against.." something somehow equals justifying the decision, but it's a ridiculous concept.