Yeast Of the Misconduct: Bar Complaint Was “Craven, Cowardly, And Unmanly”

A 30-day suspension has been imposed by the Virginia State Bar based on an agreed disposition.

The complaint was filed by counsel in a motor vehicle personal injury accident; respondent was opposing counsel.

Respondent stipulated in the bar matter that he “was personally insulting, verbally abusive and rude toward [the complainant], his client, and others…”

He had called the client a “scam artist” with a “garbage” case, asked “[w]hy don’t we adjourn to Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood on this?” and told the plaintiff at deposition that he was “not going to try any more logic on you.”

He interrupted counsel at the treating doctor’s deposition and accused him of a “slight [sic] of hand” by having the doctor adopt prior deposition testimony.

Most lamentably, he engaged in misconduct by  “unnecessarily and unduly dwelling on a yeast infection for which plaintiff had been treated.”

His answer to the bar complaint lent fuel to the fire as he sought to “first put [complainant’s] whine in its proper context and then offer my cure for what ails [him].”

The “whacking” he had administered to complainant left him “a man pirouetting across the courtroom floor and then planting a vicious roundhouse punch on his own nose.”

In an interview with the bar, he called the matter “horseshit,” expressed the view that it is “craven, cowardly, and unmanly” for one lawyer to complain about another, and explained that the “boobs at the bar just do not understand why his tactics are not only acceptable but effective.” (Mike Frisch)