Ethics and Professional Responsibility

Veteran Memphis lawyer R. Sadler Bailey plans to appeal a disciplinary panel decision that he be suspended for 60 days for showing "disrespect and sarcasm" in comments made to Circuit Court Judge Karen Williams during a medical malpractice trial in 2008. He also is criticizing release of the opinion, which he says should have been kept private until his appeal is heard. He said it was proof of "a conspiracy and vendetta to humiliate and embarrass me," The Commercial Appeal reports.