1. According to its website, the North Carolina State Bar disbarred, during a ten year period, more than ____ attorneys?
  100
  250
  350
  550

2. The executive director of the North Carolina State Bar is?
  F. Lane Williamson
  L. Thomas Lunsford, II
  Katherine E. Jean
  Katherine "Katy" Parker

3. In February 2008, when asked how many prosecutors had been disbarred by the NC State Bar, its General Counsel replied...
  "approximately a dozen."
  "Mr. Nifong is the only prosecutor to be disbarred by the State Bar since its inception."
  "the State Bar does not keep statistics regarding whether a respondent attorney was a district attorney or an assistant district attorney."
  None of the above.

4. General Counsel for the North Carolina State Bar is...?
  Katherine E. Jean
  Noelle Talley
  James J. Coman
  F. Lane Williamson

5. According to the State Bar, in 2006, the average time between the Bar's Grievance Committee's receipt of a grievance and the filing of a DHC (Disciplinary Hearing Commission) complaint was...
  approximately eight weeks
  six months
  a year
  523 days

6. The State Bar's Grievance Committee, after dismissing a grievance must...
  keep its dismissal confidential
  publicly announce the dismissal
  notify the complaintant only
  make it a matter of public record

7. The North Carolina State Bar is accountable to and has oversight by...
  no agency, entity or individual
  the Office of the Governor
  a state legislative committee
  the Attorney General's Office

8. The Committee on Justice for Mike Nifong has filed a complaint with the State Bar against...
  Johnny S. Gaskins, Bill Wolfe, and Thomas Keith
  Bill Wolfe, Thomas Keith, and Belinda Foster
  Johnny S. Gaskins, Freda Black, and James Hardin
  Michael D. Parker, Thomas Keith, and Freda Black

9. Regarding Mike Nifong, the North Carolina State Bar stated...
  "Beginning in April of 2006 and continuing into June of 2007 scores, if not hundreds, of people all over the world complained to the State Bar about Mr. Nifong's conduct."
  "The State Bar opened the first and second grievance files in March and June, 2006 in response both to State Bar employees' own observations of Mr. Nifong's misconduct and to reports by lawyers of the same misconduct."
  "The lawyers who made these reports of misconduct (against Mr. Nifong) requested at the time of the reports that their names not be disclosed."
  all of the above.

10. The mantra for the North Carolina State Bar is...
  "The State Bar keeps North Carolina attorneys on the straight and narrow by weeding out the bad apples."
  "We take our mandate to assure justice through competent representation seriously."
  "The true strength of a democracy lies in its system of laws. We, at the NC State Bar, assure that it remains strong by maintaining the highest standards for its advocates."
  "It is the State Bar's duty to regulate the practice of law in North Carolina for the protection of the public. The State Bar will continue to fulfill that duty."

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