10th Circuit: Despite Lawyer's 'Deliberately Dishonest' Conduct, Sanctions Were Overly Broad
The lower court found that attorney Karen Hammer, who serves as the co-secretary of the Colorado Bar Association's ethics committee, "fought tooth and nail" to conceal the fact that she—not her former client—was the real party in interest pursuing claims against a debt collection lawyer.
October 21, 2021 at 02:05 PM
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Legal Ethics and Attorney DisciplineAlthough a district judge properly found a Colorado attorney's "deliberately dishonest" conduct to be sanctionable, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit found it applied too broad a standard when determining the amount of sanctions against her, according to an unpublished opinion released Monday.
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