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Connecticut AG Shuts Down ‘Illegal’ Law Firm

Connecticut AG Shuts Down ‘Illegal’ Law Firm

Connecticut’s Democratic Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, is shutting down the Nationwide Home Relief Law Group, an “illegal” law firm Blumenthal says bilked 200 Connecticuters of more than $750,000. Blumenthal says…

Dreier Firm Faces Eviction

Dreier Firm Faces Eviction

Save for a skeleton staff authorized to wind up the affairs of the now-bankrupt Dreier LLP, attorneys remaining at the firm’s midtown Manhattan offices must leave the premises by March…

Bar Shuts Down Three Offices of ‘Vexatious Litigant’

The State Bar of California has shuttered three Southern California offices of attorney Mitchell W. Roth, who was recently declared a vexatious litigant by a federal judge in Los Angeles.…

CA State Bar Shuts Down “Illegal” Law Office

CA State Bar Shuts Down “Illegal” Law Office

Prosecutors at the State Bar of California have shut down a satellite office of Walter S. Martinez, a solo practitioner in Upland, California, alleging that two office administrators were illegally…

Lemon Lawyers Battling Further Disciplinary Action

From The Legal Intelligencer: Craig T. Kimmel and Robert M. Silverman, founders of one of the largest lemon law practices in the northeastern United States, continue to try to stave…

Laywer: It’s Legal! Client: Great, Let’s Do It! Lawyer: Oh, Wait… Sorry

Laywer: It’s Legal! Client: Great, Let’s Do It! Lawyer: Oh, Wait… Sorry

A Waterford, Michigan couple has filed a lawsuit against their former attorney, claiming they were ill-advised when they tried to raffle off their house in October. Joseph and Penelope VanDevelder’s…

Another Bad Lawyer Steals from Clients

Um, what is up with lawyers nowadays? This guy steals from escrow funds, this one held on to settlement funds, these guys bribed clients. And then there’s Bernie and Marc.…

Disbarred Attorney Caught in Madoff Web

Disbarred Attorney Caught in Madoff Web

A former lawyer, who was disbarred in the 1980s taking client escrow funds, has been charged with defrauding investors of out of millions of dollars as a hedge fund manager.…

Lawyer Forgot She Was Suspended, Argued Before CA Supreme Court

Lawyer Forgot She Was Suspended, Argued Before CA Supreme Court

The California Supreme Court has removed Cynthia Thomas from the death penalty case of Charles Moore, and referred her to the State Bar for disciplinary proceedings. The court says Thomas…

Chicago Forgets to Fire Law Firm

A prominent law firm paid $38.1 million to collect overdue Chicago parking tickets and other debt is still rolling in city business, one year after it was supposed to be…

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