An immigration lawyer has been publicly reprimanded by a federal appeals court for misconduct because his failure to meet briefing deadlines and other scheduling requirements forced the dismissal of 10 cases.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit yesterday adopted a grievance committee report that said Lawrence Spivak had dropped the ball in 10 cases and blamed his clients in nine of them. In some of the cases he offered the unacceptable defense that the appeals were unlikely to succeed.
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