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The Year's Most Memorable Lawyer Misbehavior

By Robert J. Ambrogi

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I've been culling through our 2009 Legal Blog Watch posts and decided to search for the year's most egregious examples of lawyers gone bad. I found such a wealth of misbehavior that I had difficulty picking just a few to highlight. That said, here are my somewhat arbitrary and purely subjective choices for the year's best examples of bad behavior by lawyers. And before I get a slew of e-mails pointing out the obvious, let me say that I am intentionally skipping the headline-topping misbehaving lawyers who have already had more than their share of the spotlight in 2009 -- lawyer turned powerhouse-defendant Marc Dreier, Florida lawyer and accused Ponzi-schemer Scott Rothstein, and misbehaving federal judges Samuel Kent of Texas and Thomas Porteus Jr. of Louisiana. Instead, I'm going for the ones you may not have heard about -- unless, that is, you are a religious reader of Legal Blog Watch. I award the top spot to Massachusetts lawyer Raymond A. Desautels III, the now-disbarred lawyer whose Web site once boasted that he was "a lawyer you can trust." That, of course, was before he was convicted of misappropriating $1.99 million from a client's account and sentenced to 2.5 years...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on January 06, 2010 (boomark / email).