{"id":158502,"date":"2026-07-27T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/27\/aba-argues-doj-is-weaponizing-the-rules-of-professional-conduct-in-attempting-to-disqualify-susman-godfrey\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:00:47","slug":"aba-argues-doj-is-weaponizing-the-rules-of-professional-conduct-in-attempting-to-disqualify-susman-godfrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/27\/aba-argues-doj-is-weaponizing-the-rules-of-professional-conduct-in-attempting-to-disqualify-susman-godfrey\/","title":{"rendered":"ABA Argues DOJ Is ‘Weaponizing the Rules of Professional Conduct’ in Attempting to Disqualify Susman Godfrey"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DOJ’s reasoning for disqualifying Susman “would effectively make the ABA’s choice of counsel subject to the government’s veto,” the ABA argues.<\/p>\n

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The DOJ’s reasoning for disqualifying Susman “would effectively make the ABA’s choice of counsel subject to the government’s veto,” the ABA argues.<\/p>\n

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The DOJ’s reasoning for disqualifying Susman “would effectively make the ABA’s choice of counsel subject to the government’s veto,” the ABA argues. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The DOJ’s reasoning for disqualifying Susman “would effectively make the ABA’s choice of counsel subject to the government’s veto,” the ABA argues. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":158491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/legal-news-Ix3SSm.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}