Steven Donziger has been given a second chance to save his law license. John R. Horan, the referee who will be conducting the next hearing in the New York bar’s disciplinary case against Steven Donziger has decided that Donziger should be allowed to challenge the factual basis on which Judge Kaplan found that he had committed fraud. The is the best news Donziger has had in a while, and it creates the possibility that a US court will eventually disagree with Judge Kaplan’s findings of fact. The decision seems erroneous to me. As I understand it, the court has already determined that Donziger violated the rules of professional conduct, and the purpose of the upcoming hearing is to determine the sanction. It seems very…

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