A disbarred lawyer, Richard Porges, directed attorneys affiliated with a small firm in Queens to appear in an employment case and then paid them, according to a decision by a New York federal judge who has directed the matter to federal prosecutors.
Southern District Judge Richard Sullivan on Tuesday referred Porges, a Harvard Law School graduate, and Stephen B. Irwin, an attorney who worked on an employment case, to the Southern District U.S. Attorney’s Office “for possible criminal violations” related to the unlicensed practice of law.
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