From the National Legal and Policy Center today:

The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has filed an appeal of the rejection of its complaint against E. Jean Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan by the Attorney Grievance Committee (AGC) of the New York Supreme Court.

On August 3, the Committee, or rather its Chief Attorney Jorge Dopico, who apparently serves as political gatekeeper, rejected the complaint alleging that Kaplan failed to inform the court or President Trump’s lawyers that Carroll falsely replied in October 2022 to a deposition question about whether anyone else was paying for her lawsuits against President Trump. Carroll replied “No” even though Kaplan knew that the suit was funded by an organization bankrolled by left-wing billionaire and Jeffrey Epstein associate Reid Hoffman.

As the complaint noted, “At that moment, Kaplan knew that answer was false but waited almost six months later until the eve of the trial to correct the record by informing opposing counsel and the court that Hoffman had funded the lawsuits”…

As an exhibit to the Request, Kamenar submitted an Expert Witness Report by noted ethics expert Jack Marshall of ProEthics. His Report concludes: “The deliberate failure of Attorney Roberta Kaplan to follow the requirements of the New York State Bar’s Rules of Professional Conduct was serious and substantial. It caused significant harm to her client’s adversary and the administration of justice in the case at issue, as any distortion of the relevant facts in any matter will. The record, in my expert opinion, demonstrates Ms. Kaplan’s lack of honesty, trustworthiness and competence, rendering her continued engagement in the practice of law to be a threat to the integrity and reputation of the legal profession.”

“If the committee does not reverse the summary dismissal of our complaint, it smacks of a coverup,” Kamenar told the Daily Signal

Readers here know my opinion of Ms. Kaplan’s ethics orientation. I would not publicize the fact that I was hired to issue an ethics opinion for a client, but this client chose to publicize it themselves.

You can read the NLPC appeal here. The original ethics complaint is here. Click here for my Expert Witness Report.