About

There are approx­i­mately 1.4 mil­lion attor­neys actively prac­tic­ing law in the United States. According to the American Bar Association’s “Survey on Lawyer Discipline Systems, 2007″ over 117,500 com­plaints were filed dur­ing the year alleg­ing vio­la­tions of eth­i­cal rules and the law. Of these com­plaints approx­i­mately 4.3 per­cent will result in attor­neys being charged with an “eth­i­cal” or other vio­la­tion and only 3 per­cent (3,525) will result in pub­lic sanc­tions against the attor­ney. Fewer than 0.72 per­cent (846) will actu­ally result in the attor­ney’s dis­bar­ment, a sanc­tion gen­er­ally reserved for attor­neys con­victed of felonies or who habit­u­ally defy ethics rules over an extended period of time.

As the fore­go­ing sta­tis­tics illus­trate, if you’re a vic­tim of an attorney’s breach of the “Rules of Professional Conduct” or the law, the odds of your obtain­ing jus­tice for their mis­con­duct are heav­ily stacked against you. It is for this rea­son EvilEsq was founded. It is our mis­sion to pro­mote the eth­i­cal prac­tice and appli­ca­tion of the law by increas­ing trans­parency regard­ing attor­ney mis­con­duct and the failed sys­tems reg­u­lat­ing them.

Victims of Attorney Misconduct

If you’re a vic­tim of attor­ney or judi­cial mis­con­duct, we want to hear from you. Send us a short arti­cle to be pub­lished on EvilEsq explain­ing what the attor­ney did or did not do which resulted in harm you and oth­ers. Provide your expla­na­tion in the con­text of the law and the Rules of Professional Conduct to which the attor­ney is bound to adhere. Explain how you and those close to you have been dam­aged, finan­cially and oth­er­wise by the attorney’s mis­con­duct. Explain whether law enforce­ment per­son­nel or the attor­ney dis­ci­pli­nary agency to which you com­plained took any action redress the attorney’s con­duct. If the attor­ney was sanc­tioned by a dis­ci­pli­nary agency, court or con­victed of a crime relat­ing to your case, be cer­tain to include infor­ma­tion regard­ing the dis­ci­pline imposed, your opin­ion as to the ade­quacy of that dis­ci­pline and any resti­tu­tion received. Also, be cer­tain to include the attorney’s full name, law firm affil­i­a­tion (if any), the state(s) in which they are licensed and their bar iden­ti­fi­ca­tion number(s). State your case clearly and con­cisely. The less edit­ing we have to do the faster your arti­cle will be pub­lished. In the future, we intend to pro­vide vic­tims the abil­ity to file griev­ances against attor­neys online. Until then, unless you can sup­port your case with con­firmable evi­dence or with doc­u­men­ta­tion from a court or rec­og­nized dis­ci­pli­nary agency, we will not pub­lish the names of offend­ing par­ties (or your name if you wish to remain anony­mous). Send your arti­cle and sup­port­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion to: victims@evilesq.com.

Volunteer

We plan to sig­nif­i­cantly expand our reach and the capa­bil­i­ties of this site in com­ing months and are look­ing for vol­un­teers to assist with:

• prepa­ra­tion and edit­ing of content;
• col­lec­tion, and analy­sis of sta­tis­ti­cal infor­ma­tion regard­ing lawyer dis­ci­pline; and
• site pro­mo­tion.

Email us at volunteer@evilesq.com if you’re inter­ested in assist­ing with any of the above tasks. If you’re short on time, an easy way to assist our under­tak­ing is to write a com­ment about us on your web­site, blog or a pub­lic forum with a link back to this site. You can expe­dite this by using the “Bookmarking” icons located at the bot­ton of each post. This will serve to increase our read­er­ship and pro­vide us greater promi­nence with search engines. Also, take the time to browse this site, com­ment on and rate attorney’s behav­ior. Email a link to this site to oth­ers you may know who’ve been affected by attor­ney misconduct.

Attorneys

If you’re men­tioned in any of the arti­cles on this site we’d like to hear from you too. Particularly, we’d like to know what you’ve done to redress the dam­age your mis­con­duct caused, how you’ve reha­bil­i­tated your­self and why the pub­lic (if you haven’t been dis­barred) should trust that you, as an offi­cer of the court, will not offend again. State your case clearly and con­cisely. The less edit­ing we have to do the quicker your arti­cle will be pub­lished. Be cer­tain to pro­vide your full name, state(s) of licen­sure and cor­re­spond­ing bar number(s). Also, ref­er­ence the title and date of the arti­cle in which you are men­tioned. Email your sum­mary and any sup­port­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion to: donoevil@evilesq.com