Ala. S. Att'y Discip., SECTION II, A, Standard 1.2
Ultimate disposition of lawyer discipline should be public in cases of disbarment, suspension, and public reprimand. Only in cases of minor misconduct, when there is little or no injury to a client, the public, the legal system, or the profession, and when there is little likelihood of repetition by the lawyer, should private discipline be imposed.
The Disciplinary Board shall have the discretion to impose a public reprimand with general publication or a public reprimand without general publication. In all cases involving imposition of discipline consisting of disbarment, suspension, public reprimand with general publication or transfer of a lawyer to disability inactive status, notice shall be published in the official Bar publication and in a newspaper of general circulation in each judicial circuit of the State of Alabama in which the disciplined or disabled lawyer maintained an office for the practice of law.
In all cases involving imposition of discipline consisting of a public reprimand, without general publication, notice shall be published in the official Bar publication. The reprimand is nevertheless public and may be released upon request or inquiry. Interim suspension or probation may be either public or private at the discretion of the Disciplinary Commission or the Disciplinary Board.
Ala. S. Att'y Discip., SECTION II, A, Standard 1.2