abovethelaw.com
That’s just… Wow.If you thought your lawyer was shitty...
Lawyer Suspended For Pooping In Pringles Can Gets His Law License Reinstated - Above the Law
A very serious ethical shituation for this lawyer turned out to have an ending happier than the poop emoji.
Found the lawyer who used to be a VanDoo.
www.theglobeandmail.com
And now facing contempt charges; apparently, saying "my wife was responsible for the trust fund, and she's not able to testify" isn't the flex one might think it is. I suspect the judge was less enthusiastic about that claim when testimony that a line of credit expenditure was to repair a sewer backup was demonstrably false, and the funds instead were funnelled into the trust account to cover some of the fraudulent transactions.
In cases like that there should be a criminal investigation and, if warranted, charges as well. Seems to be a pretty clear breach of trust and theft by conversion. It doesn’t sound like a super complex investigation; some victim/witness statements and a couple rounds of production orders would probably do it, so long as the law society was willing to play ball on working through the privilege issues.
thetyee.ca
The self-protection, 'circling the wagons' is not limited to law societies. Many other professional regulatory bodies, teachers and doctors in Ontario, come under similar fire.Self regulation or self protection?
Alberta’s Lawyers Police Their Own. The Process Is Brutal and Broken | The Tyee
Three witnesses in a recent conduct tribunal say they were forced to endure hell. A Tyee special report.
Ditto. If I had a nickel for every time my name is mispronounced... With the exception of the "highly private information" that seemed to have come out that no one seemed to notice (which makes you wonder what it was - and it still might have been relevant to the case) this isn't much of an article of earth-shattering dimensions. Seems the reporter was just fluffing out the piece.
