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Professor Alberto Bernabe - The University of Illinois-Chicago School of Law

Friday, October 17, 2014

Lawyers behaving badly

The headlines in today's ABA Journal online include the following stories:

Ex-judge gets 60 days and 6 months of house arrest for falsifying court records and prostitution

Lawyer who robbed 3 banks and shot state trooper gets 24 years

Ex-partner of law firm indicted, accused of aiding unlawful use of energy tax credits by clients

Judge apologizes for more than 200 sexually explicit emails sent from office

Disbarred lawyer who stole from his own mother and others gets 44 months in federal prison

What's going on?!
Posted by Professor Alberto Bernabe at 7:06 PM
Labels: How not to practice law
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