With Retroactive 2-Year Suspension, Did Court 'Underplay' Gordon Caplan's Wrongdoing?
“The truth is if Mr. Caplan had not been someone who had a great [ethics] lawyer, and if he hadn’t been from a white-shoe law firm, he may not” have ended up with a retroactive two-year license suspension from the First Department court, but rather could have received a harsher sanction, said University of Connecticut law professor Leslie Levin.