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Misbehaving Lawyers

By Robert J. Ambrogi

In England, a solicitor is a lawyer. In La Jolla, Calif., a lawyer is alleged to be a solicitor, not in the legal sense, but in the decidedly illegal sense. Lawyer Steven R. Liss, 53, has been arrested on suspicion of trying to hire someone to kill his wife, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. The family-law practitioner apparently decided that divorce court was not his best option and instead sought the help of others to have his wife killed, police said. The newspaper reports that Liss has twice had his law license suspended and has had numerous complaints filed against him by clients. Up the California coast in Santa Ana, bankruptcy lawyer Ralph Gibson Pagter Jr., 49, was arrested after he allegedly tried to use a large hunting knife to stab a process server, the Los Angeles Times reports. When the process server came to Pagter's home, the lawyer allegedly confronted the man, threatened him and tried to stab him. The man fled and called police, who arrested Pagter on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. He was later released on $25,000 bail. Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, 42-year-old lawyer Johann Scott Scrimshire was taking advantage of the summer weather to...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on July 21, 2009 (boomark / email).