Did they actually go through any effort or was it just an automatic thing because of a felony conviction?
qualified for automatic disbarment based on their guilty pleas in June.
Yep, there we go. This is how little they care. They didn't bother getting a grievance or oversight or standards committee involved, they kicked the lawyers out because they auto-boot felons. A lawyer could get hammered and drive his car through a fence without hurting anyone (IANAL but I think property destruction automatically boosts a DUI to a felony), or sell bootleg fireworks on the side and he'd get the exact same treatment.
Did they actually go through any effort or was it just an automatic thing because of a felony conviction?
Yep, there we go. This is how little they care. They didn't bother getting a grievance or oversight or standards committee involved, they kicked the lawyers out because they auto-boot felons. A lawyer could get hammered and drive his car through a fence without hurting anyone (IANAL but I think property destruction automatically boosts a DUI to a felony), or sell bootleg fireworks on the side and he'd get the exact same treatment.
I suspect they'll wait long enough to be able to re-write history then let them back in for "standing against injustice" or some similar horseshit.