A lawyer’s attempt to shield himself from discipline via a release in a divorce agreement was not only void — it was itself an ethics violation, the state Supreme Court ruled on Nov. 18.
The Court adopted the Disciplinary Review Board’s finding that Alan Welch knew the release to be unenforceable but included it as a tactical block against the client’s wife, who had already reported him to ethics authorities.
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