Discipline
Jun. 23, 2012
Bar recommends disbarment for attorney
The lawyer who told evicted homeowners to break back into their foreclosed houses should be disbarred, the State Bar Court ruled in a decision released Thursday.
By Don J. DeBenedictis
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The lawyer who told evicted homeowners to break back into their foreclosed houses should be disbarred, the State Bar Court ruled in a decision released Thursday.
Michael T. Pines, 60, did not oppose the disbarment, which must be imposed by the state Supreme Court. The bar court had ordered him onto inactive status in May 2011. In re: Pines, 10-O-10600 (State Bar Ct., filed June 11, 2012).
Pines made national h...
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