A feud lasting nearly four decades between a Virginia lawyer and the Virginia State Bar (VSB) is coming to a head Daniel and the VSB Rhetta Daniel has been practicing law in Virginia for almost forty years; from 1982 - 1920 she worked as a Senior Assistant Bar Counsel for the VSB, prosecuting bad lawyers for them. These proceedings could lead to the removal of a lawyer's license to practice law, and as such their ability to continue to practice law. Daniel said she was pushed out as the Senior Assistant Bar Counsel in 1990 after it became clear that her aggressive style was not welcome and that the VSB was more interested in protecting connected attorneys than weeding out unscrupulous ones. The specific case was My Linh Soland, a client who had two powerful lawyers. "What they did was protect her defense counsel," Daniel said. She explained that a letter that may have doctored the attorney's letterhead was in the possession of her
Many contumacious bigots prefer that I grovel in the dirt well they hang me with the highest motives and have their vigilantes kick me with steel toed pious loafers into filthy cages stuck in the mud and their own backyard.
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