Lawyers gone wild...
It has been a strange week for our brethren:
-Attorney charged with attempted murder:
Watching his father fight a gut-wrenching legal battle motivated Augustus Mendenhall to go to law school. But the decades-old property dispute still festered, resulting in a bizarre incident this past weekend that left the 38-year-old attorney jailed in an attempted murder case and a 66-year-old Indiana state lawmaker battered and bruised.
-Harvard Law grad sets fire to 9/11 chapel:
Schroeder turned himself in for the blaze at the Memorial Park chapel housing the remains of unidentified Sept. 11 victims on Saturday evening, according to the New York Post and the New York Times. The remains were unharmed, but mementos such as photos and flowers were either damaged or stolen.
Partner torpedoes his own firm:
A South Florida law firm is seeking dissolution after allegations surfaced this weekend about a failed investment venture by its high-profile founder, Scott Rothstein.
Fired associate torpedoes his former firm:
The site is the creation of Edward Harrington Heyburn, an associate at Levinson Axelrod from 1998 until he was let go in 2004. An audio clip dedicates it “to all the working class people that get stepped on by their rich bosses.”
Since his initial post on Sept. 30, which called senior partner Richard Levinson “The Hypocrite Behind the Curtain,” Heyburn has used the site to criticize and mock the firm and its partners and to showcase its in-court losses. He even provides a link to the Office of Attorney Ethics Web site for anyone who might want to file a grievance.
