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With Retroactive 2-Year Suspension, Did Court 'Underplay' Gordon Caplan's Wrongdoing?

"The truth is if Mr. Caplan had not been someone who had a great [ethics] lawyer, and if he hadn't been from a white-shoe law firm, he may not" have ended up with a retroactive two-year license suspension from the First Department court, but rather could have received a harsher sanction, said University of Connecticut law professor Leslie Levin.

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Gordon Caplan, right, arrives at federal court, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, in Boston, Massachusetts. Photo: Steven Senne/AP Gordon Caplan, right, arrives at federal court, Oct. 3, 2019, in Boston, Massachusetts. Photo: Steven Senne/AP

The first and arguably most important action that Gordon Caplan took to protect his law license, despite having committed a felony in the college admissions bribery scandal, happened on May 21, 2019, when he stood up inside a federal courtroom and stated aloud his guilty-plea allocution in the scandal, according to several ethics and attorney discipline-focused lawyers and professors.

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Jason Grant

Jason Grant

Jason Grant is a staff writer covering legal stories and cases for the New York Law Journal, the National Law Journal and Law.com, and a former practicing attorney. He's written and reported previously for the New York Times, the Star-Ledger, the L.A. Times and other publications. Contact him at [email protected] On Twitter, pls find him @JasonBarrGrant

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