![]() Petitioner held himself out as associated with all of these entities and as the General Counsel for CCLU. ![]() At some point during 20, Respondent and his firm had relationships with the Christian Civil Liberties Union (“CCLU”), Corrections and Prison Reform International, and Justice4All. ![]() The majority – but far from all – of the misconduct complaints arose in connection with Petitioner’s and his law firm’s representation of clients who were incarcerated as a result of criminal convictions and who wished to pursue potential post-conviction remedies. To date, Petitioner has made restitution of $300. Bar Clients’ Security Fund paid out over $650,000 to clients harmed by Petitioner’s misconduct. Petitioner consented to disbarment while facing more than one hundred complaints of misconduct involving allegations of multiple Rule violations – including the violation of the most serious rules prohibiting fraud, dishonesty, misappropriation, commingling funds, rampant neglect, and a pattern of aggressive marketing to, and taking money from, vulnerable incarcerated clients without providing meaningful services. A District of Columbia Hearing Committee has recommended that reinstatement be denied to an attorney who had consented to disbarment in 2009. ![]()
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