William “Bill” P. Ramey III was being dressed down by a very unhappy judge, and attorneys who came to see him squirm were enjoying it.
US Magistrate Judge Peter Kang, threatening bar disciplinary referrals, had ordered Ramey to his San Francisco courtroom in September to explain why his Houston-based law firm handled patent infringement lawsuits in California for seven years without being licensed to practice there.
Even as he told the judge he’d practiced intellectual property law for years, he fumbled through books and papers, stammered, and struggled to cite relevant case law and attorney conduct rules. Kang pressed ...
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