Funny, This Doesn’t Look Like Chicago

An Illinois attorney has accepted consent to disbarment on these facts

Movant’s admissions and billing and expense records  from the Segal, McCambridge, Singer & Mahoney law firm (“the firm”) would have  established the following:

Movant worked with the firm in its Chicago  office, concentrating his practice in the litigation of asbestos-related claims.  As part of his practice, Movant was required to travel to out-of-state  depositions and hearings, and he incurred expenses related to that travel that  he knew the firm would bill to its clients.

Beginning in approximately 2010, Movant  submitted information to the firm that fraudulently stated that he had incurred  travel-related and other expenses relating to the matters he was then handling  for the firm’s clients. For example, Movant would occasionally book a flight,  cancel his flight reservation, and then submit the original receipt to the firm  as part of a request that he be reimbursed for the purported expense as if he  had actually taken the flight. Movant received funds from the firm based on his  fraudulent requests for reimbursement, and he understood that the firm charged  its clients, and that the clients paid, the amounts Movant requested as  purported expense reimbursements.

The amount Movant sought as expense  reimbursement that he had not actually incurred exceeded $130,000 for the period  from 2010 through 2014, when Movant’s conduct was discovered and he resigned  from his position as a partner in the firm. During this same period, Movant also  provided the firm with inaccurate information about time he spent on client  matters, claiming, for example, that he had travelled to another city when he  actually was in Chicago at the time.

The matter now goes to the Illinois Supreme Court for final action. (Mike Frisch)