More Nifong

The best part of Nifong's disbar is that lawyers were able to discipline one of their own. Unfortunately, the legal system is run exclusively by lawyers, and lawyers have the hardest time regulating each other. Judges are lawyers, bar associations and their committees are lawyers, and government is a lot of lawyers. History shows that a lawyer has to cross way, way over a line before another lawyer is willing to threaten the former's "livelihood." To accept that view, non-lawyers are asked to forget how many times a lawyer is willing to threaten the livelihood of non-lawyers without the slightest bit of grief. Will other lawyers learn from Nifong's ordeal? Hope is eternal, but reality bites.