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A bizarre email exchange involving a New York appellate clerk, defense counsel Ernestas Pravilionis, and opposing counsel Farva Jafri exposes a deeper crisis of professional ethics, technological comp...
Stephen D. Hans & Associates, P.C. — a Queens-based management-side labor and employment defense firm with more than 45 years of practice — has filed its appearance in Jafri v. Arnold & Smith Law, PLL...
Attorney Farva Jafri's TRO application in the Eastern District of New York presents a federal court with a documented record that is unusually clean at this early stage. A close reading of all four Wi...
When a law firm terminates an attorney managing hundreds of consumer debt defense cases without a transition plan, vulnerable clients are left defenseless against aggressive collection lawsuits.
The extraordinary AdobeSign record from May 11, 2026, where Attorney Farva Jafri signed seven withdrawal notices in just 22 minutes, proves the law firm's preceding weeks of delay and false court fili...
Chief Legal Officer Kyle Riddel and COO Colin Green terminated a managing attorney with an empty promise of coordination, plunging hundreds of clients into limbo while admitting they had no transition...
When Attorney Farva Jafri filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against her former firm, the obstruction escalated from passive neglect to an active campaign of retaliation, marked by over 60 false cou...
Following the abrupt termination of their lead multi-state attorney, Arnold & Smith Law failed to substitute counsel in 7 of 8 states, abandoning hundreds of vulnerable clients in consumer debt cases....
A routine billing inquiry in mid-March led to an immediate payment, followed by a sudden termination five days later, sparking a 14-count federal civil rights lawsuit against Arnold & Smith Law.
When a law firm tasked a five-month attorney with substituting counsel on hundreds of active cases, she generated 214 unnecessary filings and wasted over 300 hours of court time. An inside look at how...
A federal court filing in the Eastern District of New York reveals how a national law firm terminated a highly productive attorney and then failed to transition her caseload. The emergency temporary r...
Despite receiving a presidential pardon for federal fraud convictions, former judge Michele Fiore faces new disciplinary charges from the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline, underscoring the end...
For years, two California police officers used their badges as weapons of extortion, posing as federal agents to steal money and marijuana from unsuspecting drivers. Their recent federal prison senten...
The Ethics Reporter has documented five appellate reversals of Justice Ondrovic's decisions — including one case in which he was reversed twice. The pattern spans every area of civil law. It is costin...
Antonia Cipollone has been the backbone of the 9th Judicial District Grievance Committee for over twenty years. She was passed over for Chief Counsel — twice — in favor of people with a fraction of he...
Courtny Osterling was admitted to the bar in 2011 and was working at an OCA administrative office in Brooklyn as recently as 2022. He is now Chief Counsel of the Grievance Committee for the Ninth Judi...
New York's attorney grievance committees take years to dismiss cases, escalate charges on appeal to deter respondents from challenging outcomes, and operate with almost no meaningful accountability. T...
A source with deep expertise in the municipal bond market reached out to The Ethics Reporter with critical corrections and context about how retail investors are systematically disadvantaged in the $4...
American bar associations market themselves as guardians of professional integrity. But study after study reveals a darker reality: attorneys of color — particularly Black attorneys — are disciplined ...
The Government Accountability Office has spent months trying to determine how Elon Musk's DOGE operation accessed some of the federal government's most sensitive data systems — Social Security records...
Since 1963, the Supreme Court has required prosecutors to hand over evidence that could help the accused. Sixty years later, violations of that rule are rampant, wrongful convictions pile up — and the...
For years, two sitting Supreme Court justices accepted undisclosed gifts worth millions of dollars from billionaires with interests before the Court. No one stopped them — because nothing in federal l...
The Justice Department has moved to dismiss sweeping bribery and fraud charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani — days after he pledged a $10 billion investment in the United States and retaine...
The Justice Department has quietly paid out more than $8.5 million in taxpayer funds to settle legal claims by Trump supporters, including fired FBI agents disciplined for January 6 involvement, leaki...
In a divorce proceeding involving unvested restricted stock units granted to a husband by his former employer, Judge Robert S. Ondrovic denied the wife's motion both to compel financial disclosure and...
Shirley Caccioppoli was struck by a swinging metal gate at a Westchester County apartment complex, injuring her ankle. Judge Robert S. Ondrovic granted summary judgment to the defendants after their e...
In a single personal injury case arising from a car accident in Westchester County, Judge Robert S. Ondrovic made two separate legal errors — denying the plaintiff's motion to amend his complaint to a...
A senior Justice Department attorney in Rhode Island withheld a homicide arrest warrant from a federal judge during a bond hearing, leading to the release of a man wanted for murder in the Dominican R...
When Gautam Adani's lawyers walked into a meeting with Trump's Justice Department last April, they came bearing a gift: a promise of $10 billion in U.S. investments and 15,000 American jobs. Days late...
A tip received by The Ethics Reporter describes a pattern of alleged billing fraud by Albulena Uka — a recently sworn-in New York attorney and doctoral-level law academic affiliated with Brooklyn Law ...