Illinois Compiled Statutes
705 ILCS 205/6 (2026)
No person, whose name is not on such roll, with the day and year when the same was written thereon, shall be suffered or admitted to practice as an attorney or counselor at law in any court within this State, and the justices of the supreme court, in open court, shall have power at their discretion to strike the name of any attorney or counsel at law from the roll for malconduct in his office; and any judge of a Circuit Court shall, for like cause, have power to suspend any attorney or counselor at law from practice in the court over which he presides, during such time as he may deem proper, subject to the right of appeal as in other civil cases
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(705 ILCS 205/6)
(from Ch. 13, par. 6)
Sec. 6.
No person, whose name is not on such roll, with the day and year
when the same was written thereon, shall be suffered or admitted to
practice as an attorney or counselor at law in any court within this State,
and the justices of the supreme court, in open court, shall have power at
their discretion to strike the name of any attorney or counsel at law from
the roll for malconduct in his office; and any judge of a Circuit Court
shall, for like cause, have power to suspend any attorney or counselor at
law from practice in the court over which he presides, during such time as
he may deem proper, subject to the right of appeal as in other civil cases.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 3675.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1994–2009 · leading case: In re Gen. Order of March 15, 1993, 629 N.E.2d 673 (Ill. App. Ct. 1st Dist. 1994).
In re Gen. Order of March 15, 1993, 629 N.E.2d 673 (Ill. App. Ct. 1st Dist. 1994). “” Hull’s principal contention on appeal is that section 6 of "An Act to revise the law in relation to attorneys and counselors” (Act) 1 (705 ILCS 205/6 (West 1992) (formerly Ill.”
Burnette v. Terrell, 905 N.E.2d 816 (Ill. 2009). “The appellate court also considered whether a judge has the authority under section 6 of the Attorney Act (705 ILCS 205/6 (West 1992) (“any judge of a Circuit Court shall, for like cause, have the power to suspend any attorney or counselor at law from practice in the court over…”
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