KY-AG:Lawsuit seeks to remove GOP attorney general nominee Daniel Cameron from KY ballot
A new lawsuit seeks to have Republican attorney general nominee Daniel Cameron’s name removed from the Nov. 5 election ballot, arguing that he lacks the eight years of experience as a “practicing attorney” required for the office by Kentucky’s constitution.
The Kentucky Bar Association admitted Cameron on Oct. 21, 2011, which means the election will be held eight years after he was licensed to begin practicing law. But Cameron, who is 33, spent the next two years serving as a clerk for U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove in Frankfort and London.
Judicial clerks may not practice law during their clerkships, as explained to them in their formal ethics guidelines, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Jefferson Circuit Court by Joseph Leon Jackson Sr. of Louisville. Also, Jackson alleges, Kentucky courts define the practice of law as using legal knowledge to represent the needs of a client, which Cameron did not do while assisting a judge.
“A federal judicial clerkship cannot reasonably be considered the ‘practice of law’ as defined by the Kentucky Supreme Court because it does not involve any legal service to ‘one requiring the services,’ as there is no client involved in federal judicial clerkships,” Jackson alleges. “The practice of law while a federal judicial clerk is generally not permitted under the applicable ethical guidelines.”
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