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Ah, yet another streaming legal drama to review and analyze. Thank you, television gods, for continuing to bestow a fruitful bounty of hourlong installments to fill my column’s coffers.
Mount Vernon lawyer Alvin James Thomas has been disbarred for misappropriating client funds and has admitted that even more money might be missing.
Joseph H. Crabtree, Jr. faces a three year suspension, with one year served on active suspension and the remaining two years on probation, after the Supreme Court found his conduct
The State Bar of California opened 205 disciplinary matters over four decades about lawyer Tom Girardi, who was disbarred in June after he was accused of failing to pay settlement funds to clients in three separate matters.
The ethical principle behind escrow funds is simple—the funds belong to a client or a third party, not the attorney. The attorney, who is a fiduciary, cannot commingle escrow funds...