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Non-lawyer holding self out as lawyer?

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Yesterday's Denver Post: Evidence against "attorney" / Records show a frequent counsel is a felon with no U.S. license, by Felisa Cardona. The article discusses a federal case tried in Colorado which the former lawyer defended. [Some dispute whether he ever was a lawyer in the first place.] California man misrepresented himself as a licensed attorney in at least 16 cases at 10 federal courts since 2004, including the case of an NHL player who pleaded guilty to hiring a hitman to kill his agent and a murder-for-hire trial involving an Aspen woman, according to records obtained by The Denver Post. Clients and lawyers knew Howard O. Kieffer, 52, as a capable attorney specializing in federal sentencing and plea negotiations through the Santa Ana, Calif...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on June 22, 2008 (boomark / email).