A referee for the Florida Bar has recommended a one-year law license suspension for a former homicide prosecutor who sent hundreds of texts and made hundreds of phone calls to a state court judge during a 2007 capital murder trial. Howard Scheinberg, 51, was admitted in 1987 and is now in private practice in Plantation after two...
read moreOne day in May 2010, an assistant public defender in Newport News, Va., got an unusual phone call. A prosecutor pursuing a case against a former client of Brian Keeley’s wanted his help. A witness who had testified earlier and pointed the finger at defendant Mario Lamar Turner now said he couldn’t recall what happened....
read moreAn Indiana lawyer had been sentenced to 15 months of probation and 3 months of electronic detention at home after his conditional guilty plea to voyeurism. A former client contended he recorded their sexual encounter without her consent. She also said he offered to trade legal services for sex. However, William R. Wallace now is...
read moreRejecting a hearing panel’s reprimand recommendation, the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers has declined to discipline a former associate of a Boston law firm who had complained that the firm discriminated against her due to her gender and status as a new mother. In a seven-page decision (PDF) released on Wednesday, the BBO...
read moreA Tennessee judge was so addicted to prescription medication during his last two years on the bench that he was buying drugs and having sex during courtroom breaks, sometimes purchasing medication from those he had sentenced, an investigation has found. Convictions in one high-profile murder case have already been reversed following...
read moreArguing that a former state governor and a former president of the Cleveland City Council received lesser punishment for similar violations of legal ethics rules for lawyers, a former Ohio attorney general on Tuesday asked the state’s top court, through his counsel, to stay a six-month suspension of his own law license. Former...
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