When it comes to attorney discipline, there is huge variation across the United States. According to a report by the American Bar Association, California has more disciplined attorneys than any other state in the country. With more than 8,000 attorneys being disciplined between 2011 and 2016 alone, California has an impressive number of cases where lawyers were found guilty of professional misconduct. Naturally, with its large population size, this makes some sense; however, when taking population into account, it appears that Louisiana actually leads the country in attorney disciplines per capita. During that period of time which was studied for the ABA report, nearly 1 in every 500 active attorneys in Louisiana had been found guilty of professional misconduct. While states such as Massachusetts and Maryland also have high rate of disciplinary actions overall—owing to similarly large populations —their rate per capita is much lower than that of Louisiana.