All posts tagged "IOLTA"
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51FraudBailey Law Stands Accused of Unlawfully Dippin’ into Millions of Dollars of International Client Funds
Jess Bailey of Bailey Law Firm in the Woodlands has failed to return over $1.5 Million Dollars of Client Funds Despite Repeated...
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978FraudIs This The Beginning? Making Lawyers Criminally Liable for Their Thievin’ Ways
To the State Bars around the nation. Y'all need to question why you're letting lawyers steal so much client dosh without criminal...
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3.5KFederal LawFederal Judge Sentencing Disparity: Texas Tax Lawyer Receives 6 Months and Client 18 Months Jail
U.S. District Judge Karen Gren Scholer sentenced Client Thomas Selgas to 18 months in prison and Texas Attorney John Green to six...
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993Appellate JudgesRespectfully Judge Thompson, the Enhancement Comparison to Attorney Cohen is Dead Wrong. Here’s Why…
A Lawyer is "An Officer of the Court", Held to a Higher Standard and Had The All Important IOLTA Accounts and Perceived...
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1.4KLawyer ComplaintsBe Warned: There’s A High Risk Your Uninsured Lawyer May Steal Your Cash
LIT Recommendation: In real estate transactions clients can deposit their escrow funds with a title insurance company, bypassing a lawyer’s escrow account.
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3.4KFederal LawFifth Circuit Judge Edith Brown Clement Understands the Various Badges of Fraud in Law. The Caveat is Lawyers Are Immune
An individual badge of fraud is not conclusive, but a concurrence of many badges in the same case will always make out...
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3.4KFederal LawTwo Texans Get 5 Years Each for Theft of $25,000 in Iowa. Iowa Attorney Gets Zero Jail Time, No Felony Record and Keeps her Law License for $100,000 theft.
The two Texans were arrested June 11 after employees at Sioux City's Scheels store saw them making suspicious purchases on a credit...
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4.2KFederal LawLawyer Meyer Suspended in Iowa for Fraudulent Billing in Excess of $100k in Attorney Fees. Citizen Jacobs Wrote Bad Checks for $1,100 and was Sentenced to 5 Years Jail
Lawyers Above the Law: It's very disheartening when you read articles about lawyer theft by overbilling attorney fees and they are given...
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3.7K1Federal LawAre the 3-Panel at an Appellate Court Obligated to Report Attorney Fraud? Nay, Sayeth the Eleventh Circuit. The Law, However, Does Not Support this Theory.
What started out as an 11th Circuit review of a Fraudulent Transfer Appeal ended up telling the beginning of a 60 minute...
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2.1KEditors ChoiceLawyers Using Client Monies Like a Personal ATM is a Nationwide Virus and One that Needs to Be Stopped by Jailing these Rogue Attorneys
Lawyer Stewart D. Pollak misappropriated funds while acting as an escrow agent in a turnover proceeding, according to the panel. Entrusted with...
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5.4KLaws In TexasTexas Lawyer Chris Hartman Finally Disbarred After Becoming State Witness to Prevent Going to Jail for Theft
A Sweetwater attorney who was an unindicted co-conspirator with John Young and Ray Zapata in the forgery, theft and money laundering trial...
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3.8KFederal LawFlorida Attorney Who Owned a Strip Club Disbarred for Stealing Client Funds. No Mention of Jail or an Indictment. Who’s on the VIP Client List?
Disbarred Florida Lawyer Brett Hartley misappropriated funds from multiple clients and then made intentional misrepresentations to presiding judges in order to conceal...
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2.8KFederal LawTexas Lawyer Tossed Out of Idaho After Texas Conviction
Texas Attorney Green, a Republican, who has said he considers the IRS a “criminal organization.” Green also has compared the U.S. government...
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3.2KFederal LawWhen You Get a Million Dollar Settlement in a Patent Case, Don’t Evade Paying Your Taxes on the Reported Settlement or the IRS Will Indict You and Your Crooked Lawyer
According to the indictment, Thomas and Michelle Selgas, a married couple, conspired with John O. Green, an attorney licensed to practice in...
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2.7KDebt CollectorFifth Circuit Appellate Court for the State of Texas Reenacts the Alamo by Charging Lower Court Abused its Discretion by ‘Invading the Attorney Work-Product Privilege’
The court’s opinion doesn’t seem to reflect or take note that the trial court’s order had allotted for redacting any attorney-client privileged...
