My coworker and I were legal secretaries and she, unfortunately, was assigned to work for a very insecure young woman associate. This associate was the daughter of a senior partner and was determined that everyone knew how powerful this made her. She never let an opportunity go by to berate or talk down to anyone she deemed less important than her.
I work at a law firm. I was at work doing worky things. I’d been over to see one of the users in a test group for the latest print code that was waiting to be rolled out to everyone.
When people apply for disability benefits, there is a lot of documentation needed. My main job is handling the medical records aspect of it.
Search Jobs. 1. Well-known attorney David Boies found himself caught in an ethics scandal when it was revealed he represented Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein the same time his firm represented The New York Times, which was working on a takedown of the Weinstein Company founder.
In December, he was finally caught in Central America, and he is awaiting trial. 4. In September, attorney Anthony Pastor was disbarred after he was found guilty of murdering his girlfriend’s dog. The attorney was accused of killing his girlfriend’s 4-year-old dog Snoopy by repeatedly hitting the small pooch.
But in 2017, the New York attorney proved himself to be a bigger thug when he was arrested for kidnapping, fraud, and extortion.
In Kentucky, Eric Conn was known as “Mr. Social Security” because he specialized in social security cases for his elderly clients. But it turns out, Conn was conning the government, using fake medical reports to get disability claims approved, and instead of facing the consequences, he went on the run for months.
This is a list of some of the wildest stories of 2017. Attorneys are human, and sometimes humans do crazy things. Even illegal things. From faking one’s death to being ordered to live in a padded room, the year 2017 has seen its fair share of attorneys acting badly.
To do this, Rudd and his firm hired John Collucci, a former employee of their opponent, to log into the company’s system using his password. With this, they were able to access the firm’s GPS and information on clients. 6.
Boies denied the conflict of interest, saying that his firm did not have to disclose details to the Times that did not apply to the cases it had hired his firm for, but the damage was done. The New York Times fired his firm, and his public image was damaged. 2.