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Surely in order to be an attempt at forgery and fraud the lawyer would have to have known the cases were fake?
by sebzim4500 3y ago
Surely in order to be an attempt at forgery and fraud the lawyer would have to have known the cases were fake?
- dimmke 3y agoFirst of all, I think it's reasonable to start with the assumption that a case is fake until you validate that it is real. Secondly, that's a ridiculous place to put the goal post. He didn't write the argument he submitted. He didn't even do basic vetting of it. It's fraudulent because he submitted work as his own that he didn't do, it's negligent because he didn't verify that the work was actually good before submitting it on behalf of his client.
- gamblor956 3y agoHe was put on notices that the citations (and thus the cases) were fake when the opposing counsel informed him they couldn't substantiate any of the citations.