An attorney who offered legal advice to a family court judge before whom he had active cases—an arrangement that led to the judge’s suspension in 2014—has been disciplined by the New Jersey Supreme Court for his conduct, which included forging another lawyer’s signature to conceal the arrangement.
The court on Jan. 25 issued a censure to Frank Louis of Louis & Russell in Toms River, the same discipline recommended months ago by a majority of the Disciplinary Review Board (DRB) for his dealings with Ocean County Superior Court Judge Melanie Appleby.
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