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...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...Wednesday, December 31, 2008
An associate who was fired from Kirkland & Ellis in 2004, after admitting he attempted to arrange a meeting “to engage in an oral sexual act” with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl, has been suspended from practicing law in New York for three years. In a rare 3-2 decision, a five-judge panel of the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 16, 2008
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is to reopen 170 estates of deceased people, in order to reimburse heirs who were gouged by a greedy Brooklyn lawyer Louis Rosenthal. Rosenthal piled up millions of dollars in fees with the approval of his former law school pal, disgraced ex-Surrogate Court Judge Michael Feinberg. On December 4th, the state [...]
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