Legal Ethics
After Resigning, Calif. Lawyer Allegedly Kept on Practicing
Posted Jul 21, 2008, 04:31 pm CDT
By Martha Neil
A former immigration lawyer in California who resigned in 2002 as bar disciplinary charges were pending apparently kept right on practicing law.
So now James Lopez, 50, is facing four felony counts of unlawful practice, along with another four felony counts of grand theft, reports the Recorder in an article reprinted in New York Lawyer (reg. req.).
"Lopez has a long, documented history of apparent ineptitude. His discipline record with the state bar stretches back to June 1991, the month he was admitted to the bar," the article states.
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Posted by kay sieverding - 1 month, 1 week, 1 day, 10 hours, 49 minutes ago
I couldn’t read the article. Did his customers believe he was a lawyer? The McGee Commission in 1983 stated that brochures about attorney misconduct should be put in all court houses and public libraries. What ever happened to that recommendation?