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That system already exists. All lawyers in America must belong to the state bar association which is the disciplinary arm of the state Supreme Court. It has the ability to consider prior conduct in handing down suspensions and disbarment.I've advocated for years for a simple reform to the legal system that would prevent almost all frivolous lawsuits.
If we treated law licenses like they do driver's licenses in many states and assigned "points" against them for unethical behavior, lawyers would simply refuse to take cases like this for fear of losing their livelyhood.
We just need a process to collect and adjudicate accusations of bad faith/abuse of the system/misconduct. Of course it will never happen, since lawyers, judges (former lawyers), and lawmakers (mostly lawyers) would have to be the ones to make it happen.