Attorneys in ‘Forum of Hate’ Email Chain Suspended Indefinitely

A former veterans law judge and a former attorney-advisor at the VA will be indefinitely suspended from the practice of law for participating in a highly offensive and discriminatory email chain, the top Maryland court said.

James Andrew Markey and Charles Leonard Hancock, who both worked for the Board of Veterans’ Appeals in the Department of Veterans Affairs, used their official e-mail addresses to participate in an e-mail chain they called “the Forum of Hate.” They sent numerous e-mails about their colleagues that were highly offensive and evinced bias based upon race, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, and socioeconomic status, ...