disbar

disbar from (something)

To render a lawyer ineligible to practice law. A noun or pronoun can be used between "disbar" and "from." The lawyer was disbarred from practicing law because he double-billed his clients and the state for dozens of cases during his career.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

disbar someone from something

to take the right to practice law away from a lawyer. The state board disbarred Todd from practicing law in his own state. Sally was also disbarred from practicing law.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • disbar from
  • disbar from (something)
  • enforce
  • enforce (something) on (one)
  • enforce on
  • TOBAL
  • have the law on (someone)
  • have the law on somebody
  • law of averages
  • the law of averages
References in periodicals archive
Section 10.50(a) permits the DOP to censure, suspend or disbar practitioners who are shown to be incompetent or disreputable; Section 10.51 identifies specific forms of incompetent and disreputable conduct.
The trick is not to "punish" the attorney you are supposed to trust and work with; the trick is to prosecute and disbar the dishonest one.
Judge Clayton Greene Jr., writing for the high court Friday, said the circumstances of Ogilvie's case were unusual but the decision to disbar her was straightforward.
'I was thinking of actually filing a petition to the Supreme Court to disbar me.
The Colorado Supreme Court in December affirmed the hearing boards decision to disbar Kleinsmith.
In numerous pleadings, Rosenberg repeatedly challenged the Court's authority to disbar him from the practice of law.
The Speaker has dared his critics to disbar him, saying many lawyers had girlfriends.