A North Carolina lawyer told a disciplinary commission that she thought that substituting a litigant for her criminal client during an arraignment was “an acceptable strategy.”
A law firm cannot recover funds from intellectually disabled clients after a state bar determined that a partner at the firm acted unethically in entering into a retainer contract with the clients. We affirm the district court’s grant of the clients’ motion to dismiss. Michael Megaro, a partner in the plaintiff-law firm, entered into a
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday upheld a district court decision blocking a Florida law firm from collecting attorney fees from two intellectually disabled clients after its lead partner was caught defrauding them, in an opinion that affirmed the lower court's reliance on a North Carolina State Bar Disciplinary Hearing Commission decision.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling favoring two wrongfully imprisoned N.C. brothers against their former law firm. The firm had sued the brothers to recover unpaid legal fees and expenses.