A longtime Sidley Austin partner in Chicago who left the firm last fall and reemerged at DLA Piper in February is being investigated by an Illinois attorney discipline board for allegedly fabricating nearly $120,000 in expenses during his final years at his former firm.
The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission filed a complaint June 14 against real estate lawyer Lee Smolen detailing a series of either false expenses or non-work-related expenses that Smolen apparently charged to a Sidley account between 2007 and 2012. Smolen, 53, joined Sidley's Chicago office after graduating from The University of Chicago Law School in 1985 and became a partner there eight years later. A leader at the firm, he was named a member of Sidley's nearly 50-lawyer executive committee in 2008 and served as the global coordinator of the firm's real estate practice.
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