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December 07, 2011 | New York Law Journal

ABA Panel Says No to Outside Law Firm Ownership

The has panel recommended allowing nonlawyers to own a piece of firms where they are employed, but this would not become an ABA model rule for more than a year, and would still need to be adopted by individual states.
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December 29, 2009 | New York Law Journal

In re Ruby G. Emanuel

Free With Registration: Disbarred Attorney Blocked From Share in $1.2 Million Fee After Refusal to Turn Over Files, Flight From Contempt Charges
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April 18, 2012 | New York Law Journal

ABA Shelves Nonlawyer Ownership Policy Change

Jamie Gorelick, co-chair of the commission and a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, said the members took into account comments from the legal community before making a decision.
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November 16, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Looking Back at Significant 2011 Cases

In his Law Firm Partnership Law column, Arthur J. Ciampi, the managing member of Ciampi LLC, writes that this year saw interesting decisions and actions in New York state and federal courts which addressed issues affecting law firms in the bankruptcy context, challenged the ban on non-lawyer investors in law firms, applied res judicata to limit duplicative claims in law firm partnership disputes, construed law firm agreements concerning amounts owing to former partners, and applied CPLR 3213 in the law firm context.
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February 04, 2010 | Law.com

Disbarred Attorney Sanctioned Over 'Vexatious' Motion

A disbarred lawyer who has stayed out of New York state for fear of being arrested to serve a 30-day contempt sentence has been sanctioned by the Southern District's chief bankruptcy judge for raising a "vexatious" motion with "an improper purpose." The judge ordered the former lawyer to pay more than $4,800 to cover one of his opponent's legal costs for making a third attempt to collaterally attack a $3.7 million settlement negotiated for one of his former clients by Jacoby & Meyers.
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December 29, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Lawyer's Misconduct Costs Him Any Share of $1.2 Million Fee

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December 05, 2011 | The American Lawyer

ABA Panel Says No to Outside Law Firm Ownership

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December 29, 2009 | Law.com

Lawyer's Misconduct Costs Him Any Share of $1.2 Million Fee

A maritime lawyer's misconduct, including his flight from New York to avoid arrest on contempt charges, has disqualified him from sharing in a contingency fee for work performed prior to his disbarment, a federal bankruptcy judge ruled last week. Disbarred lawyer Kenneth Heller's refusal to turn over files in a matter that ultimately was resolved with a $3.7 million settlement was "symptomatic" of a 24-year record of "utter contempt for the judicial system," Judge Stuart M. Bernstein wrote.
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March 19, 2012 | National Law Journal

VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS

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September 30, 2011 | The Recorder

Viewpoint: Why Bar Sometimes Overreaches on Discipline

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