Since this is tangentially appellate related, it goes below the fold. But it is about a fake lawyer that represented clients. Big ones. But, below the fold you can read some good things about him.
As most of you know, Anderson Kill & Olick had a paralegal. His name was Brian Valery. The paralegal told them that he was going to night school. At Fordham. Then he told him he passed the bar. Then Anderson Kill hired him as an attorney. They put his picture on the web.
It turns out that all of his representations were false. Anderson Kill never bothered to check his credentials. So, once the folks at Connecticut’s Grievance Committee figured this out, the wheels of justice started turning. And so, Anderson Kill took his bio off the web.
This is a sad state of affairs! I can’t believe that Anderson Kill took his bio off the web. I am sure that you want to read all about him.
Thankfully, thanks to the internet archive, you can.
So, let’s take a look at this guy. He seems to have “assisted” in a lot of trials, and was part of a number of “teams.” Including some that worked on “precedent-setting” cases. He also authored amicus curiae briefs. It even seems that he gave certain classes -- on "terrorist insurance."
He has a list of publications, most of them seem to be from his firm’s publications. No law review articles. Even Mealey’s was sucked in by him.
What gets me about this is why no lawyers detected him. Were too so busy talking about sports? After all, when one lawyer meets another –
even if they differ on key issues like the whether it is okay to torture
citizens -- they can always talk about experiences in law school. Yet nobody noticed that this guy that had
gone to school while working at the firm must have had gaping holes in his
knowledge of law school.
It is unclear whether he graduated Sienna college or not, but he claims to have.
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