The Wisconsin Supreme Court pulled the license of a lawyer who threatened to sue his client’s relatives if the woman wouldn’t give up her attorney-client privilege so the attorney could use the material in a tell-all book about a murder trial.
The justices went beyond ethics regulators’ recommendation of a one-year suspension in a Wednesday ruling revoking Roger G. Merry’s law license. Merry threatened to sue a criminal defendant’s grandparents if she wouldn’t release attorney-client privilege, and then published facts harmful to the defendant against state ethics mandates.
The defendant, referred to as M.S. in the unauthored opinion, “suffered ...
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