{"id":1520,"date":"2005-03-02T15:25:16","date_gmt":"2005-03-02T20:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/03\/dont_try_this_at_home\/"},"modified":"2005-03-02T15:25:16","modified_gmt":"2005-03-02T20:25:16","slug":"dont_try_this_at_home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/dont_try_this_at_home\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Try This At Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every quarter or so the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility (for attorneys) puts out a newsletter.  One of its interesting features is the section listing disciplinary actions against bad lawyers.  Typically, misconduct involves an attorney (1) stealing a client&#8217;s money; (2) neglecting cases; (3) failing to respond to something; (4) conflict of interest; or (5) committing a crime (e.g., drunk driving).<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a winning entry from the Winter 2005 edition:<br \/>\n&#8220;John Smith&#8221; (Shelby County):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In one case, [John Smith] prepared a fictitious court order purporting to award $170,000 to his client when there was no such order.  In a second matter, [Mr. Smith] falsely informed his client that he had prepared a motion to set aside the dismissal of that matter when no such motion had been prepared.  He further mailed to his client a fictitious motion with a false certificate of service to all parties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm.  I wonder how long Mr. Smith thought he could get away with those documents (especially the $170,000 order) until someone figured out something was amiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/dont_try_this_at_home\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Don&#8217;t Try This At Home\"><p>Every quarter or so the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility (for attorneys) puts out a newsletter. One of its interesting features is the section listing disciplinary actions against bad lawyers. Typically, misconduct involves an attorney (1) stealing a client&#8217;s money; (2) neglecting cases; (3) failing to respond to something; (4) conflict of interest; or (5) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}