In a recent opinion column (“Georgia cracks down on ambulance chasers,” Daily Report, online July 25, in print July 28), Douglas Chandler writes of Thomas C. Sinowski and Steven F. Freedman that “they fought it out with the state bar for approximately 10 years … while continuing to practice law (and generate revenue) before finally being disbarred in late 2011.” Although the statement is technically accurate, it gives the wrong impression of what happened.
In In The Matter of Thomas C. Sinowski, et al., 290 Ga. 303 (2011), the Georgia Supreme Court related that the payment of runners continued from 1995 to 1999, long before the state bar brought its Memorandum of Grievance in 2002. Therefore, although Sinowski and Freedman continued to practice law and generate revenue for years after the grievance was initiated, all agree that the unethical payment and use of runners ceased years before the grievance was initiated.
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