context: "This broadbased power includes the power to supervise, administrate, discipline, and serve the needs of the public in all facets of the courts." It further includes "the authority to exercise necessary means to regulate and control the practice of law by promulgating and enforcing rules to discipline attorneys."
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.parenthetical: "Courts have long recognized an inherent authority to suspend or disbar lawyers. * * * This inherent power derives from the lawyer's role as an officer of the court which granted admission."
citation_a.sentence: Howell v. State Bar of Texas, 843 F.2d 205, 206 (5th Cir.1988); see In re Snyder, 472 U.S. 634, 643, 105 S.Ct. 2874, 86 L.Ed.2d 504 (1985) (“Courts have long recognized an inherent authority to suspend or disbar lawyers. * * * This inherent power derives from the lawyer’s role as an officer of the court which granted admission.”); see also In re Petition of Almond, 603 A.2d 1087, 1087 (R.I.1992) (“This court is responsible for promulgating rules regulating the practice of law and ethical standards for the conduct of attorneys admitted to the Rhode Island Bar.”).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 603 A.2d 1087, 1087
citation_b.parenthetical: "This court is responsible for promulgating rules regulating the practice of law and ethical standards for the conduct of attorneys admitted to the Rhode Island Bar."
citation_b.sentence: Howell v. State Bar of Texas, 843 F.2d 205, 206 (5th Cir.1988); see In re Snyder, 472 U.S. 634, 643, 105 S.Ct. 2874, 86 L.Ed.2d 504 (1985) (“Courts have long recognized an inherent authority to suspend or disbar lawyers. * * * This inherent power derives from the lawyer’s role as an officer of the court which granted admission.”); see also In re Petition of Almond, 603 A.2d 1087, 1087 (R.I.1992) (“This court is responsible for promulgating rules regulating the practice of law and ethical standards for the conduct of attorneys admitted to the Rhode Island Bar.”).