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When a court's affirmative orders meet with lawyer silence.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Photo from website of U.S. District Court (W.D. Mi.). Today, Virginia's intermediate appellate court found a lawyer in contempt and disbarred her for her insufficiently explained silence in response to the Court of Appeals' orders to file an amended petition for appeal after denying her petition to withdraw as court-appointed appellate criminal counsel (she also was silent when the order was repeated), not responding to a subsequent order to show cause why the foregoing behavior should not lead to a contempt order, and then not appearing in court on the date designated for hearing the contempt show cause matter. In re Lynch, Rec. No. 0051-09-1 (Va. App., Feb. 3, 2009).  The Virginia Court of Appeals re-set the contempt show-cause hearing for January 13, 2009...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).