RTL’s Origins

RTL was created to highlight BEAs’ widespread failure to enforce the Rules they’ve committed to enforce.  Its Founder and others are not identified here because RTL’s points do not claim any superior knowledge, experience, or ethics but relay solely on a plain-language reading of the Rules.  BEAs of the two criticized jurisdictions (DC and VT) know the Founder and have been (and are also here) invited to respond to any of the website’s assertions by emailing to admin@ethicsrules.org, which responses will be posting here.

Though RTL is not claiming greater knowledge or experience on these issues, it may be helpful to some readers to know that RTL’s Founder is a licensed attorney in good standing; a graduate of a top 10 law school (and served as an editor of its Law Journal); and has served as a DOJ lawyer, large law firm partner, and corporate officer.  Perhaps of greatest relevance, he is largely retired now and so may have greater ability to speak these obvious (Emperors-Have-No-Clothes) truths because his livelihood no longer depends on avoiding the retaliation he reasonably expects will come from one or both of those jurisdictions in the wake of RTL’s revelations.