It took nineteen months and I am going to put the shape of it in because I spent the first year assuming it had been thrown away.

Staff counsel investigates.

He is asked to answer in writing, and he answers, and his answer runs to thirty-one pages and is largely a technical argument about whether a lawyer presenting a document can be said to have made a representation about its enforceability.

Then there is an interview.

Then there is a period in which the committee decides whether to seek formal charges, and formal charges in that department require authorization from the court.

Charges were authorized in the following February.