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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Oct. 17, 2009

Litigators Under Fire Before 9th Circuit

Prominent Los Angeles litigator Walter J. Lack seemed to dig himself a deeper hole Thursday before a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disciplinary panel.

By John Roemer

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Prominent Los Angeles litigator Walter J. Lack seemed to dig himself into a deeper hole Thursday before a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disciplinary panel.

The three-judge panel offered some of the lawyers facing sanctions for submitting a false document in a toxic tort case a chance to plead for leniency, following an Oct. 2 session at which only their counsel spoke...

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