A prominent Minnesota attorney plead guilty Tuesday for raping a teenage boy moments before his trial was set to begin. Attorney Aaron F. Biber, 46, entered a guilty plea on a count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct just as jurors were being seated, reports WCCO. Biber, who had known the victim for nearly 4 years, was [...]
A disbarred Georgia lawyer was sentenced Wednesday to federal prison for 5 years and 3 months for swindling a 97-year-old woman and other clients out of $4.3 million. M. Dewey Bain, 59, was disbarred last October and pleaded guilty to wire fraud in April, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Over a four-year period that ended in [...]
Michael S. Margulies, who specialized in real estate law for 32 years, was fired in March from Lindquist & Vennum after it was found that was stealing money from clients through a fake business and submitting false expense reports, according the the WSJ. In his plea agreement, Margulies admitted that for the past 16 years, [...]
A former Washington, D.C., administrative law judge who lost that job after filing a multimillion-dollar suit against a dry cleaner over a lost pair of pants, has now had his wrongful termination suit dismissed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. In 2007, Roy Pearson Jr., was denied reappointment to to a [...]
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled a lawyer will be suspended from practicing law for three years for leaving critical information out of his law school application, including having been kicked out of medical school and falsifying his transcripts to land a summer associate job . Loren Friedman, who now attends business school at the University [...]
Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. of U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana was impeached for allegedly taking money and gifts from attorneys before his court and for lying in a bankruptcy filing. “Judge Porteous is one of a kind and it is time for him to receive his comeuppance,” said Rep. Jim [...]
A group of North Carolina lawyers plead guilty to running a scheme to “make drunken driving cases disappear.” Four Johnston County defense attorneys and a former court clerk pleaded guilty Monday to illegally dismissing traffic cases, including citations for driving while impaired. The lawyers, Chad Lee, 33, and Lee Hatch, 41, plead guilty to 10 counts of altering official [...]
A disbarred Florida lawyer pleaded guilty in Miami federal court Wednesday to orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that scammed clients out of more than $1 billion. Scott Rothstein, 47, was a founder and the managing partner of the law firm of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler PA, who fled to Morocco in late October but returned to Florida in early [...]
A Florida lawyer who was arrested today and turned over to the FBI, pleaded not guilty to running a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of more than $1 billion. Several hours after his arrest, lawyer Scott Rothstein – the once high-flying attorney who courted politicians and celebrities, pleaded not guilty in federal court to five counts, [...]
A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to a DWI when he went driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair after pounding down at least 8 beers. In August 2008, Dennis Anderson, 62, blood alcohol content was 0.29, three times the legal limit, told the police he left a bar in his chair after enjoying the beer. Soon [...]
