Disbarment is the permanent revocation of an attorney's license to practice law. It is the most serious sanction the legal profession can impose, reserved for the most egregious misconduct: stealing from clients, committing fraud, engaging in criminal conduct, or demonstrating repeated and willful disregard for professional obligations. The Ethics Reporter tracks disbarment cases across all 50 states, examining the conduct that led to disbarment, the disciplinary proceedings that produced it, and what disbarment actually means for the attorneys and the clients they harmed. We also examine the cases where disbarment should have happened sooner — where gradual escalation through lesser sanctions allowed attorneys to continue harming clients long after the writing was on the wall.