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Tenth Time’s the Charm!
A Connecticut divorce lawyer, who has been practicing since 1984, has had nine grievance complaints filed against him with the Statewide Grievance Committee, and all nine complaints were dismissed. Well, he got hit recently with complaint number 10, and this time the complaint stuck and the attorney has now been reprimanded by Connecticut’s Statewide Grievance Committee.
The complaints stemmed from an ongoing feud between ex-spouses who have been divorced and feuding for almost 10 years. During a 2004 hearing, an issue came up about someone needing to take a psychological exam. When the ex-wife asked why such a test was necessary, her ex-husband’s attorney allegedly said that someone in the room had problems. He then stared at the ex-wife and began humming “The Twilight Zone” theme song. The ex-wife filed a complaint with the Grievance Committee over this incident and the Committee determined that the attorney’s actions, implying that his client’s ex-wife is a whack-job, had “no substantial purpose other than to embarrass, delay or burden a third person [i.e., the ex-wife].”
While the attorney was also reprimanded for making false statements (about a factual issue in dispute during the hearing), he was let off the hook for a third charge, allegedly burning the ex-wife with a cigarette on purpose. The Grievance Committee ruled that the burning was an accident, occurring when the ex-wife approached the smoking attorney outside of the courthouse. However, the Committee did indicate that the attorney’s “apology,” which amounted to little more than “I’m sorry you ran into my cigarette,” was “rude and boorish.”
You know that episode of “The Twilight Zone,” “The Eye of the Beholder?” Yeah, it’s the one where the woman wants plastic surgery and it fails and all the doctors tell her she’s hideous and there’s nothing they can do about it and then at the end you find out that she’s actually pretty gorgeous but “normal” society in this world is all messed up and deformed. Right. Well, I don’t really have a point here. I just hate scum-bag attorneys like this. I guess that’s what I’m saying.
