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 that the firm, which offered mortgage foreclosure rescue services to Connecticut consumers for up to $4,000 a pop, was in fact selling an arbitration service that [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 23, 2009
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 4th. If the offices are not vacated by the agreed-upon date, the landlord, Hines 499 Park LLC, may “with the assistance of the United States Marshal” [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 13, 2009
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. Roth has been hospitalized due to severe depression since January 23rd. On January 30th, US District Judge Manuel Real of the Central District of California declared Roth, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 6, 2009
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 practicing law. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office charged a dozen people, most of them chiropractors, as part of an ongoing sting operation against illegal patient [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 1, 2009
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 off disciplinary action in Pennsylvania and New York following their Sept. 2 suspension in Maryland. The pair, founding partners of 12-lawyer Kimmel & Silverman, was suspended indefinitely [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 31, 2009
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 house on Wanamaker Road was on the market unsold for 18 months. So they contacted attorney Phillip Strehle to find out if they legally could raffle [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 29, 2009
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. You know, the word “law” is right in the name, guys. Now a Brooklyn lawyer has been charged with stealing more than $4 million over seven years [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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. Say, Buffy, let us invest our wealth with the fellow who was disbarred for stealing funds! Arthur G. Nadel, 76, made his initial appearance before a federal [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 26, 2009
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 argued Moore’s case before the Court on December 2nd while ineligible to practice law. Thomas says she “failed to realize” she hadn’t been fully reinstated to [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
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 fired for bankrolling an Arizona trip for a high-ranking Revenue Department official. Last February, the collection-services law firm of Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson was accused [...]
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