http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:11:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://overlawyered.com/2009/06/lawyer-for-holocaust-victims-claims-trust-fund-dipping-was-inadvertent/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/06/lawyer-for-holocaust-victims-claims-trust-fund-dipping-was-inadvertent/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:07:39 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=11796 Longtime Overlawyered mentionee Edward Fagan, already removed from practice in New York, now fights disbarment in New Jersey.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2009/06/lawyer-for-holocaust-victims-claims-trust-fund-dipping-was-inadvertent/feed/ 0 http://overlawyered.com/2008/12/edward-fagan-disbarred/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/12/edward-fagan-disbarred/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:36:54 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=7995 A flamboyant lawyer we’ve been writing about for a long time, best known for international reparations suits, seems to have reached the end of his professional road. (Noeleen G. Walder, “Lawyer Disbarred for Failing to Pay Sanctions, Fees in Holocaust Case”, New York Law Journal, Dec. 12). Earlier coverage: Feb. 1, 2008, Nov. 26, 2005, etc., etc.

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