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  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Baldwin

    Publication Date: 2020-03-02
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Education | Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-0237

    Court agreed with disciplinary board that respondent attorney violated rules of professional conduct 1.1, 1.6(a), 1.7(a) and 8.4(d) but imposed public reprimand rather than public censure board recommended. Discipline imposed.

  • Calhoun v. Invention Submission Corp.

    Publication Date: 2020-02-24
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Consulting | Legal Services | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Western
    Judge: District Judge Dodge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-0185

    Defendants failed to demonstrate that they suffered substantial prejudice based upon the contents of a law firm's website discussing this lawsuit since information about the suit was already available in the public domain and the content of the website was not materially different from the allegations in the pleadings. The court denied defendants' motion for a protective order and sanctions.

  • Advanced Fluid Systems, Inc. v. Huber

    Publication Date: 2019-03-18
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
    Judge: District Judge Conner
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 19-0280

    The moving defendants were not entitled to a new trial under Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b)(6) as such relief is reserved for extreme circumstances and was not warranted here, where counsel's lack of candor regarding his disciplinary history was troubling but not the deliberate fraud depicted by his former clients. The court denied defendants' motion for a new trial.

  • Campbell v. Pa. Sch. Bd. Assoc.

    Publication Date: 2019-01-15
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Education | Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge DuBois
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 19-0019

    While plaintiff's counsel acted unprofessionally and violated rules 4.2 and 4.4 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct, disqualification was not warranted given the extreme nature of that sanction and the fact that counsel's client still wished to retain him in this matter. The court granted defendants' motion for sanctions.

  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Pozonsky

    Publication Date: 2018-02-06
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Todd
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 18-0112

    Respondent judge was disbarred after he resigned his judicial commission and was convicted for stealing cocaine from the evidence locker in his courtroom and using it for recreational purposes while the founder and sitting judge of the drug court, obstructing administration of law and misapplication of entrusted property because respondents grievous conduct far outweighed the mitigation evidence he offered, it severely diminished the publics confidence in the judiciary and respondent offered no causal connection between his addictio

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  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Kovalcin

    Publication Date: 2017-12-19
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 17-1835

    Respondent was suspended for a year and a day for failing to cooperate with his prior firm partner in dissolving the firm and in abandoning the firm, for his inability to account for $10,000 of client funds owed to clients in his cases in the firms IOLTA account and neglect of client matters by failure to respond to preliminary objections in one case and by failing to respond to motions before the bankruptcy court in another case, by failing to obtain admission to practice before the bankruptcy court or secure local counsel, failing

  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Barkley

    Publication Date: 2017-12-05
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 17-1773

    Respondent was suspended for two years because he was transferred to inactive status in 2002 and administratively suspended in 2010 but offered to provide legal services in immigration matters in Utah, where he was not licensed to practice, and engaged in the unauthorized practice of law in Utah, misrepresented to clients that he was an attorney who could handle immigration issues, accepted payment for legal services, failed to provide those services and failed to contact his clients or refund their fees.

  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Crawford

    Publication Date: 2017-12-05
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 17-1774

    Respondent was disbarred for charging excessive fees, failing to deposit those fees into a trust or IOLTA account; neglecting clients matters, failing to refund unearned or unused fees, making direct and blatant misrepresentations to his clients about expenditures; for inadequate and unprofessional representation by not filing his appearance in a timely fashion and failing to file a pre-trial statement, attend the pre-trial con-ference or make any effort to obtain reports or depose witnesses for trial; failing to file a brief after f

  • Raub v. US Airways, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-11-28
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline | Personal Injury
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge DuBois
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 17-1758

    Court admonished attorney but declined to revoke her pro hac vice admission, in plaintiffs case against airline for injuries from flight turbulence, because while attorney did engage in ex parte communications with two flight attendants who were represented parties, there was no prejudice since airline stipulated to liability. Motion for sanctions denied.

  • Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Kotsopoulos

    Publication Date: 2017-11-21
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 17-1716

    Respondent was suspended for one year for filing an action that had no basis in law and in which he was not acting on behalf of a specific client when he filed a petition for appointment of plenary guardian for someone who had been committed to a state hospital and was incapacitated and falsely alleged that a social worker at the hospital was the petitioner and that he was the attorney for the petitioner but there was no social worker by that name and no one from the hospital authorized respondent to file the petition and respondent a