I just saw that another lawyer was discovered never having gone to law school. Seems Kimberly Kitchens of the Pennsylvania bar kind of forgot to go to law school, but managed nevertheless to parlay her decade spent as a paralegal into a job with a Huntingdon firm, where she made partner after 10 years of good work on estate and probate matters. In the firm’s defense, she had forged a law school transcript, bar exam results, a law license and even a check paying her bar dues. With all of this evidence, the other partners never bothered to check with bar officials as to whether she was really a lawyer.
This reminds me of the Brian Valery case I handled some years ago as chief disciplinary counsel. Valery was a New York paralegal at a big firm who convinced the firm to pay for him to attend law school. Fordham, as I remember. He never went. I think he kept the money they gave him for tuition. As I remember it, he also forged transcripts and bar results. Apparently, to add verisimilitude to his charade, he even pretended to have failed the bar on his first try.
This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.
To view this content, please continue to their sites.
Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.
For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]
