An Oregon attorney was rightfully sanctioned for posting responses to negative online client reviews that named the client and disclosed his criminal history, but he should only be publicly reprimanded instead of temporarily suspended from practice, the state’s top court said Thursday.
Brian Conry was hired by a client facing deportation because of convictions for second-degree burglary and second-degree theft. After about five years the client was ordered deported. He took his case to a different law firm, which accused Conry of ineffective assistance of counsel for wrongly conceding that the client’s offenses were crimes of moral turpitude. The federal ...
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