It’s Been A Busy Week for Unfortunate & Misbehaving Lawyers and Legal Types

Usually there’s a few stories but there’s obviously something in the air this past week. We’re exhausted after reading all of these…

Law Professor Arrested For Child Abuse

Sometimes the irony of a situation hits you over the head and renders you nearly speechless. Like when a University of Florida law professor — noted for his work in the area of children’s rights and the associate director of the Center on Children and Families — gets arrested for child abuse.
http://abovethelaw.com/2017/01/law-professor-arrested-for-child-abuse/

This Judge Really, Really, REALLY Wants Off This Case

I am going off the handle officially. I am tired of this case. I beg you to recuse me…. I beg you to recuse me. I don’t want to deal with you people anymore…. I’m honestly — I’m trying to get recused. Because I can’t — it is not fair to me, my staff, my life to have to deal with you people who do not want to resolve this case.

— Probate Judge Mike Wood, who’s spent most of the last of 20 years presiding over the fight for billionaire oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall’s (better known as Anna Nicole Smith’s husband) estate, expressing his frustrations with the ongoing case.

Limpopo law firm director arrested for R1.9m fraud
Tzaneen – A Limpopo law firm director has been arrested for theft and fraud amounting to R1.9m, said the Hawks. The priority crime investigations unit spokesperson Captain Matimba Maluleke said the director allegedly claimed money from the Road Accident Fund on behalf of unnamed clients.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/limpopo-law-firm-director-arrested-for-r19m-fraud-20170127

Dutch police accused of brutalising international lawyer in racially motivated attack
Police deny allegations of racist and violent conduct after American lawyer says she was ‘brutalised, arrested and thrown into jail’ as she travelled to work in The Hague
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dutch-police-beat-up-brutalise-chaka-laguerre-icj-lawyer-international-court-justice-racially-a7547231.html

City lawyer spared jail over Christmas party sex attack at rowing club
http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/26/city-lawyer-spared-jail-over-christmas-party-sex-attack-at-rowing-club-6407340/#ixzz4Wzrh8pUu

Lawyer Francisc Catalin Deliu fined $250k for ‘appalling’ conduct
A lawyer has been ordered to pay more than $250,000 for a raft of misconduct charges including that he baselessly accused a judge of being a racist and another of judicial corruption. But Francisc Catalin Deliu, who goes by the name Frank Deliu, avoided being struck off as a lawyer and was instead suspended for 15 months.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11789909

Egypt Bans Top Human Rights Lawyer From Travel Abroad
Egypt banned a prominent human rights lawyer from leaving the country on Thursday, according to the lawyer and an airport official — the latest in a series of travel bans imposed on rights activists in the Mideast country. Negad Borai, who runs the United Group for Law, told The Associated Press he was heading to Jordan to visit family when airport authorities informed him that he was banned from leaving the country.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/egypt-bans-top-human-rights-lawyer-travel-abroad-45062808

Crimean Tatar lawyer Kurbedinov detained in occupied Crimea
Crimean Tatar lawyer, human rights activist Emil Kurbedinov has been detained in Russia-occupied Crimea on his way to Bakhchisaray where he was to be present at a police raid on Seyran Saliev’s house.