Attorney Larry Klayman is facing an April 7-8 hearing with the Board on Professional Responsibility of the District of Columbia Bar. According to the Legal Profession Blog the complaint "alleges three instances of violations of District of Columbia Rule of Professional Conduct 1.9 in representing interests materially adverse to Judicial Watch in the same or substantially related matters." Klayman left Judicial Watch in 2003.
The bar proceeding may be related to a 2008 ruling by a federal judge that Klayman's representation of a former Judicial Watch client in a breach of contract lawsuit against Judicial Watch violated Rule 1.9. The judge ordered Klayman removed from the case.
Last month, Klayman revealed that he is facing a DC Bar hearing in a document he filed in a defamation lawsuit against Judicial Watch. During a deposition in that case, Judicial Watch President Thomas Fitton mentioned the bar proceeding. Klayman submitted a motion asking the court to "exclude from admission at trial any mention of the D.C. Bar proceeding concerning Plaintiff." He also asked the court to place the relevant portion of the deposition under seal, although he included it with his motion, unsealed.
This is not Klayman's first run-in with a bar disciplinary system. In 2011, the Florida Bar publicly reprimanded him when he fell behind in payments he had agreed to make to settle a dispute with a former client.