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The following are summaries of actions taken against attorneys by law enforcement, victims of attorney misconduct and bar overseers.

Theodore Silva Jr., Esquire | REPRIMANDED

By agent41, March 11, 2009 in

Atten­tion all lawyers fond of cocaine, forgery, and deceit: You won’t make part­ner at Hol­land & Knight, but that doesn’t mean they won’t hire you. Just ask Theodore S. Silva Jr., a for­mer Hol­land & Knight part­ner who has been pub­licly rep­ri­manded by the Vir­ginia Bar for plead­ing guilty to a felony charge of pos­ses­sion of cocaine (charges were ulti­mately dis­missed for Silva’s com­pli­ance with court orders), fail­ing to report the cocaine arrest, fail­ure to pay Vir­ginia Bar dues, and fail­ing to main­tain his CLE or “con­tin­u­ing legal edu­ca­tion” cred­its. We applaud the Vir­ginia Bar for its staunch enforce­ment of its CLE require­ments, for who knows how dif­fer­ent things could be if Mr. Silva had the ben­e­fit of an annual ethics class.

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Donald Cookman, Xsquire | CHARGED

By Evil, March 10, 2009 in

West Vir­ginia.  Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
From the Moun­tain State, dis­barred attor­ney Don­ald Cook­man, age 41, has been charged with forgery and embez­zle­ment stem­ming from his man­u­fac­tur­ing judg­ments totalling approx­i­mately $1.1 mil­lion and “mis­ap­pro­pri­at­ing” $180,000 from sev­eral clients.  Pros­e­cu­tors are alledg­ing that Cook­man forged the sig­na­ture of Min­eral County Cir­cuit Court Judge Andrew Fry on his phony […]

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Gerald A. Eppner, Esquire | CENSURED

By Evil, March 7, 2009 in

Word from the Empire State that a Man­hat­tan appeals court “Pub­li­cally Cen­sured” lawyer Ger­ald A. Epp­ner for fail­ing to file tax returns to report $4.1 mil­lion of income. They dole out such harsh penal­ties to attor­neys in New York it’s a won­der any New York, Esquire(tte)s ever dare infract their ethics rules. Obvi­ously New York­ers are up in arms over this case.

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Russell Cheek, Esquire | INDICTED

By Evil, March 3, 2009 in

New Jer­sey. Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
Word came today from the Gar­den State that a grand jury indicted Rus­sell G. Cheek, Esquire [#101412] a/k/a Cheeky Cheek, charg­ing him with theft and mis­ap­pli­ca­tion of entrusted prop­erty– $45,600– belong­ing to a vic­tim client– Ralph W. Hulmin.

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Gregg Hickman, Xsquire | DISBARRED

By Evil, March 3, 2009 in

Some­time before this date (August 2008) in the in the Buck­eye state, Gregg Hick­man, Esquire of Toledo (go Mud Hens!) was dis­barred by the Supreme Court of Ohio upon his con­vic­tion for attempted grand theft.

Accord­ing to the ToledoBlade.com “Hick­man was rep­re­sent­ing Tim­o­thy Sebring in a divorce and child cus­tody issue when he was given $112,509.09 to put in his escrow account to pro­tect the money dur­ing the pro­ceed­ings, accord­ing to Assis­tant County Pros­e­cu­tor Bruce Sorg, Between Dec. 1, 2004, and Dec. 21, 2007, Hick­man paid out por­tions of the money — $41,500 in 11 checks.” The bal­ance of the clients acc­count was never returned.

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Robert Lehman, Xsquire | DISBARRED

By Evil, March 2, 2009 in

On this date in the Hoosier State, the Indi­ana Supreme Court dis­barred lawyer Robert E. Lehman for com­mit­ting the fed­eral felony of will­fully mak­ing a false tax return. Lehman did not chal­lenge the Indi­ana Supreme Court Dis­ci­pli­nary Commission’s com­plaint for dis­ci­pli­nary action and the Hear­ing Offi­cer, Cyn­thia S. Emkes, found Lehman vio­lated the Ini­d­i­ana Rules of Pro­fes­sional Con­duct pro­hibit­ing the com­mis­sion of a “crim­i­nal act that reflects adversely on a lawyer’s hon­esty, trust­wor­thi­ness, or fit­ness as a lawyer in other respects and engag­ing in con­duct involv­ing dis­hon­esty, fraud, deceit, mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion and other stuff Cal­i­for­nia lawyers can get by with.

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Brian Magruder | SUSPENDED

By EvilEsq, February 24, 2009 in

It is ordered that BRIAN GREGORY MAGRUDER, State Bar No. 229675, be sus­pended from the prac­tice of law for two years, that exe­cu­tion of the sus­pen­sion be stayed, and that he be actu­ally sus­pended from the prac­tice of law for 90 days and until the State Bar Court grants a motion to ter­mi­nate his actual sus­pen­sion pur­suant to rule 205 of the Rules of Pro­ce­dure of the State Bar of Cal­i­for­nia as rec­om­mended by the Hear­ing Depart­ment of the State Bar Court in its deci­sion filed on Octo­ber 15, 2008.

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Henry A. Walsh, Jr., Esquire | SUSPENDED

By EvilEsq, February 21, 2009 in

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
On this date in the Gar­den State, the New Jer­sey Attor­ney Dis­ci­pline Review Board (the DRB) sus­pended Henry A. Walsh, Jr., Esquire [#102090] for three months effec­tive Feb­ru­ary 21, 2009 on a cer­ti­fied record for prac­tic­ing law after he had been declared inel­i­gi­ble to do so for non-payment of the annual attorney […]

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Dorca I. Delgado-Shafer, Esquirette | SUSPENDED

By EvilEsq, January 2, 2009 in

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
On this date in the Gar­den State, the New Jer­sey Attor­ney Dis­ci­pline Review Board (the DRB) sus­pended Dorca I. Delgado-Shafer, Esquirette [#102027] for two years effec­tive Jan­u­ary 2, 2009 for engag­ing in dis­hon­esty, fraud, deceit and mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion by advis­ing a finan­cial insti­tu­tion that she was hold­ing $41,000 for her clients in a […]

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Steven Lever, Esquire | SUSPENDED huh?

By Evil, December 29, 2008 in

On this date in the Empire State, Steven J. Lever, Esquire, an intel­lec­tual prop­erty attor­ney, for­merly with Kirk­land & Ellis in New York City, was sus­pended by the New York bar after attempt­ing to arrange a meet­ing “to engage in an oral sex­ual act” with a female he believed to be 13 years old– via an Inter­net chat room– in 2004.

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