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Texas Lawyer Sued by State Bar Over Dealings With Exonerees

By Steve Hall

"Lawyer for Texas Exonerees Faces Misconduct Suit," is the title of Jeff Carlton's AP report this morning.  It's via Law.com. The State Bar of Texas has filed a lawsuit against an attorney who collected millions of dollars from wrongly convicted ex-inmates, saying he committed professional misconduct by charging fees that were illegal and unconscionable. Lubbock attorney Kevin Glasheen has been credited by lawmakers and advocates as the driving force behind a 2009 law that made Texas the most generous state in the nation in compensating the wrongly convicted. He has said he acted appropriately in charging his clients a 25 percent contingency fee. But the Bar's disciplinary counsel office found evidence Glasheen overcharged his clients or charged fees that violate the Bar's professional code of conduct, Bar spokeswoman Maureen Ray said Tuesday...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 19, 2011 (boomark / email).