Professor Alberto Bernabe - The University of Illinois-Chicago School of Law
Saturday, September 8, 2012
How not to practice law: do everything wrong when leaving your firm
Here is a new installment in our running list on how not to practice law: the Florida Supreme Court has suspended two attorneys for misconduct in connection with their departure as employees of a law firm. In the process of preparing to leave the firm, the attorneys solicited firm clients, made misrepresentations to the firm
and clients, copied files without authorization and more. The court found the use of the files amounted to criminal theft, dishonesty and
conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice. The case is called Florida Bar v. William Henry Winters.