List of disbarred lawyers

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This is a list of notable disbarred lawyers who have had their law license revoked or rescinded, usually for unethical or criminal conduct).

Name	Jurisdiction	Disbarred	Reinstated	Reason/Details
Spiro T. Agnew	Maryland	1973	—	No contest plea to bribery and tax evasion.
James Alexander	New York	1735	1737	Relatiatory measure for defending John Peter Zenger from sedition.
F. Lee Bailey	Florida and Massachusetts	2001	—	Misconduct while defending Claude Duboc[1]. Filed for reinstatement in Massachusetts in 2005, but has not yet been reinstated.
Frank Ballance	North Carolina	January 2005	—	Conviction for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering.
Thomas J. Capano	Delaware	21 November 1997	—	Pending disposition of felony charges.
Thomas J. Capano	Delaware	15 November 2001	—	Convicted of murder [2].
Laurence Canter	Tennessee	1997	—	In part for spamming.
Bill Clinton	Arkansas	19 January 2001	20 January 2006	Suspended for five years in plea bargain for the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Bill Clinton	U.S. Supreme Court	1 October 2001	—	Resigned in advance of disbarment proceedings for being suspended in Arkansas on charges of contempt of court in Jones v. Clinton.
Alan Eagleson	Ontario	13 November 1998	—	Pleaded guilty to fraud and theft.
David Hall	Oklahoma	1978	—	Convicted of racketeering and extortion.
Alger Hiss	Massachusetts	1952	1975	Convicted of perjury
Bruce Hyman	England and Wales	2007	—	Imprisoned for perverting the course of justice, Hyman had planted a fabricated precedent on his opponent, a litigant in person, in an attempt to dscredit him.
Edwin James	England and Wales	1861	Subsequently practised in the U.S.	For financial irregularities including inducing a loan from a witness in return for a promise of light questioning during cross-examination.
Edward Kenealy	England and Wales	17 August 1874	—	Misconduct as the counsel of the Tichborne claimant, including scandalous and vilifying imputations against witnesses, contemptuous treatment of the judges, and unnecessary protraction of the case into the longest trial in British legal history.
Egil Krogh	Washington	1975	1980	Convicted of conspiracy to violate civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg
Gordon Liddy	New York	1973	—	Convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping.
Lewis Libby	District of Columbia	March 20, 2008	—	Convicted of four of five felony counts of Obstruction of justice, Perjury, and Making false statements to a grand jury and federal investigators, in United States v. Libby, pertaining to the Plame affair and related CIA leak grand jury investigation.
George Lockhart	England	1674	1676	For disrespect to the court of session in advising an appeal to Parliament.
Alton H. Maddox, Jr.	New York	May 1990	—	For failure to appear before a disciplinary hearing to answer allegations regarding his conduct in the Tawana Brawley case.
C. Vernon Mason, Sr.	New York	1995	—	For price gouging, theft, and abandoning clients.
Mike Nifong	North Carolina	2007	—	For prosecutorial misconduct while prosecuting the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case.
Richard Nixon	New York	1976	—	For obstruction of justice related to Watergate
Fred Phelps	Kansas	20 July 1979	—	For conduct during his lawsuit against court reporter Carolene Brady.
Fred Phelps	United States federal courts	1989 (ceased practicing)	—	Already excluded from Kansas state courts by his disbarment, Phelps agreed to cease practicing in federal courts as part of the settlement for a 1985 disciplinary complaint by nine federal judges.
Mitch Skandalakis	Georgia	2005	—	Convicted of making a false statement to an FBI investigator.
William Sampson	Ireland	1799	—	Activities in defense of Catholics at the time of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Later practised in New York.
William Smith	New York	1733	1736	For participation as counsel in a lawsuit against Governor William Cosby
Lynne Stewart	New York	2005	—	Convicted in Federal Court of aiding terrorists and defrauding the U.S. government.
Gene Stipe	Oklahoma	2004	—	Pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations