A confidential source with personal knowledge tells The Ethics Reporter that twice-disbarred attorney Tony Diab is involved in operating Everest Law PC — a Utah-registered debt-relief law firm that wa...
Tony Diab allegedly stole $250 million from 60,000 vulnerable consumers using a rented law license, then allegedly tried to hide the evidence in bankruptcy court. Three-plus years later: no criminal c...
When LPG's bankruptcy was filed, Tony Diab allegedly didn't stop — he transferred the firm's tens of thousands of active client accounts to secretly controlled 'alter ego' firms, diverting the revenue...
At its peak, Litigation Practice Group collected more than $15 million per month from tens of thousands of debt-relief clients. Tony Diab allegedly converted those receivables into a financial pyramid...
Tony Diab was disbarred twice — in Nevada and California — for stealing client money, forging a judge's signature, and fabricating court documents. Then he allegedly built a $282 million debt-relief l...
Six actionable lessons from the collapse of 777 Partners and the federal prosecution of Joshua Craig Wander: why prestige suppresses due diligence, why self-sufficiency claims are a red flag, what the...
The most instructive question the 777 Partners saga raises isn't whether Joshua Wander committed fraud — prosecutors will settle that. It's how the ethical lines in alternative finance become genuinel...
On October 16, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed a federal indictment charging Joshua Wander with conspiracy and wire fraud in a $500 million scheme. The CFO had already flipped. The alleg...
The attempted acquisition of Everton FC was 777 Partners' most audacious gamble — and its most visible failure. When an Australian airline ran out of money and planes were repossessed, the entire illu...
777 Partners' sprawling sports empire — spanning clubs across Italy, France, Brazil, Belgium, and Spain — was partly funded by policyholder premium payments siphoned through a captive insurance compan...
Joshua Craig Wander built 777 Partners from a structured-settlement niche business into a global sports empire spanning three continents. By October 2025, he had been charged with conspiracy, wire fra...
The legal profession's aggressive crackdown on generative AI has nothing to do with protecting the public and everything to do with protecting its monopoly. By weaponizing ethics rules and imposing dr...
In the first quarter of 2026, U.S. courts imposed over $145,000 in sanctions on attorneys for AI-related errors. But this sudden enforcement surge isn't about protecting the legal record—it's a desper...
Despite record-high tuition and crushing student debt, NALP and ABA data reveal a shrinking job market for new lawyers. With AI automating the entry-level work that traditionally justified hiring gree...
The legal profession's aggressive crackdown on generative AI has nothing to do with protecting the public and everything to do with protecting its monopoly. By weaponizing ethics rules and imposing dr...
The legal profession's aggressive crackdown on generative AI has nothing to do with protecting the public and everything to do with protecting its monopoly. By weaponizing ethics rules and imposing dr...
Despite record-high tuition and crushing student debt, NALP and ABA data reveal a shrinking job market for new lawyers. With AI automating the entry-level work that traditionally justified hiring gree...
The legal profession is currently engaged in a spectacular display of institutional hypocrisy, and it is using the language of "ethics" as its weapon of choice. Across the country, judges are issuing ...
Courts and bar associations are frantically issuing bans and sanctions against lawyers using AI. But beneath the guise of protecting the public from "hallucinations" lies a cynical reality: the legal ...
Despite record-high tuition and crushing student debt, NALP and ABA data reveal a shrinking job market for new lawyers. With AI automating the entry-level work that traditionally justified hiring gree...
The legal profession is actively weaponizing ethics rules to suppress artificial intelligence. Through disproportionate sanctions and license suspensions, courts are protecting the billable-hour monop...
Over 1,300 lawyers have now been sanctioned for AI-generated errors in court filings — and the punishments keep escalating, from small fines to $109,700 penalties to license suspension recommendations...
With median student debt hitting $160,000, American law schools are knowingly selling an overpriced credential whose value has been gutted by artificial intelligence. It is time to call the legal acad...
The Florida Board of Bar Examiners released February 2026 bar exam results on April 13: University of Miami School of Law finished dead last in Florida, with a 39.3% first-time pass rate — just 11 of ...
Texas and Florida have ended the ABA's exclusive hold over bar exam eligibility — and the FTC sent a 14-page letter calling it exactly what it was: a 'bar admission monopoly' that imposed 'an elitist ...
The California State Bar filed misconduct charges against three attorneys for using AI to generate fake citations — with one already receiving a 30-day license suspension. Meanwhile, L.A. County court...
Columbia Law School charges $88,390 per year in tuition — the highest of any law school in the country, per new ABA data. When Congress threatened to cut off the unlimited federal lending that enabled...
New LSAC data released April 8, 2026 shows first-generation college graduates have declined for the second consecutive year as a share of entering law school classes — from 24.2% in 2023 to 21.7% in 2...
The Register confirmed today that the AI hallucination 'epidemic' in global legal proceedings now encompasses 1,200+ documented cases — with 800 from U.S. courts — and the rate is 'still increasing' d...
Stanford Law School displaced Yale at #1 in the 2026 U.S. News rankings for the first time in 36 years — triggering wall-to-wall coverage and a surge of applicant interest in a system that ranks 198 s...