Legal Opinion
Peel v. Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission of Illinois
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 4, 1990No. 88-1775PublishedCited by 196 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Stevens
The Illinois Supreme Court publicly censured petitioner because his letterhead states that he is certified as a civil trial specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. We *94granted certiorari to consider whether the statement on his letterhead is protected by the First Amendment. 492 U. S. 917 (1989).1
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This case comes to us against a background of growing interest in lawyer certification programs. In the 1973 Sonnett Memorial Lecture, then Chief Justice Warren E. Burger advanced the proposition that specialized training and certification of trial advocates is essential to the American…
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