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CHARLESTON, S.C. (Legal Newsline) – A Texas asbestos lawyer who was trying to explain why she failed to alert judges in other states about past disciplinary actions has instead chosen to withdraw from some of her South Carolina cases.
As a judge decided whether Jessica Dean, of Dean Omar Branham Shirley in Dallas, would be permitted to practice in a Charleston state court, Dean instead recently withdrew her motion seeking that approval.
The withdrawal followed a dustup in Iowa, where defendants pointed out Dean’s pro hac vice motion – a usually routine step that allows lawyers to practice in states where they are not members of the bar – omitted sanctions in Minnesota and a pro hac vice refusal in Connecticut.
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Dean
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (Legal Newsline) – A procedural motion from an out-of-state asbestos attorney has drawn the attention of the companies she is suing in Iowa, as they say it contains inaccurate information about her past.
Ford Motor Company and Honeywell International filed a motion Feb. 25 in Pottawattamie County court that would require Texas lawyer Jessica Dean to resubmit her pro hac vice request to represent Clayton and Donna Rhodes in the court.
The motion says Dean – partner at Dean Omar Branham Shirley in Dallas – has been denied admission in another jurisdiction as well as having been sanctioned by a Minnesota court, despite representations on her application that neither happened.