This is a list of disbarments affecting notable lawyers.
| Name | Jurisdiction | Date disbarred | Date reinstated | Reason/Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spiro T. Agnew | Maryland | 1973 | — | No contest plea to bribery and tax evasion.[1] |
| James Alexander | New York | 1735 | 1737 | Retaliatory measure for defending John Peter Zenger from sedition.[2] |
| F. Lee Bailey | Florida and Massachusetts | 2001 | — | Misconduct while defending Claude Duboc.[3] Filed for reinstatement in Massachusetts in 2005, but has not yet been reinstated. |
| Tommy Burnett | Tennessee | 1990 | 2003 | Convicted of multiple felonies as a result of the Operation Rocky Top political corruption investigation.[4] |
| Thomas J. Capano | Delaware | 2001 November 15 | — | Convicted of murder.[5] |
| Laurence Canter | Tennessee | 1997 | — | In part for spamming.[6] |
| Francis E. Dec | New York | 1959 January 19 | — | Convicted of 2 counts of second-degree forgery, second-degree grand larceny, fraud or deceit by notary public.[7] |
| Marc Stuart Dreier | New York | 2009 October 8 | — | Violation of New York's insider trading statute and General Business Law[8] |
| Ed Fagan | New York | 2008 December | — | Failed to pay court fines and fees in Holocaust Case[9] |
| Ed Fagan | New Jersey | 2009 January | — | Convicted for stealing money from Holocaust survivors.[10] |
| Alger Hiss | Massachusetts | 1952 | 1975 | Convicted of perjury[11] |
| Kwame Kilpatrick | Michigan | 2008 | — | Pleaded No contest to one count of assaulting a police officer and guilty to two felony obstruction of justice charges.[12] |
| Egil Krogh | Washington | 1975 | 1980 | Convicted of conspiracy to violate civil rights of Daniel Ellsberg[13] |
| Lewis Libby | District of Columbia | 2008 March 20 | — | 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.[14] |
| Lewis Libby | Pennsylvania | 2008 December 10 | — | Reciprocal with District of Columbia.[15] |
| Marvin Mandel | Maryland | 1982 October 29 | 1989 July 6[16] | Mail fraud and racketeering.[17] |
| C. Vernon Mason | New York | 1995 | — | For price gouging, theft, and abandoning clients.[18] |
| John N. Mitchell | New York | 1975 July 3 | — | Perjury[19] |
| Mike Nifong | North Carolina | 2007 | — | For prosecutorial misconduct while prosecuting the Duke lacrosse case.[20] |
| Richard Nixon | New York | 1976 August 9 | — | For obstruction of justice related to Watergate.[21] |
| Fred Phelps | Kansas | 1979 July 20 | — | For conduct during his lawsuit against court reporter Carolene Brady.[22] |
| 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.[23] |
| Mitch Skandalakis | Georgia | 2005 | — | Convicted of making a false statement to an FBI investigator.[24] |
| Joel Steinberg | New York | 1987 | — | First Degree Manslaughter[25] |
| Lynne Stewart | New York | 2005 | — | Convicted in Federal Court of aiding terrorists and defrauding the U.S. government.[26] |
| Jack Thompson | Florida | 2008 | — | Found guilty of 27 counts of professional misconduct, including verbal harassment and intimidation[27][28] |