Lawyer Gets License Suspended for Bullying Judge
Bloomberg Law reports that a New York lawyer had his license suspended for one year for trying to bully a judge who held his clients in contempt, and accusing another judge of “egregious” behavior for sanctioning him for filing a frivolous lawsuit.
A trial judge ordered Jonathan Steinberg to pay $28,600 in attorneys’ fees and $5,000 to the Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection for filing a meritless suit on behalf of himself, but he didn’t pay either fine, according to Bloomberg’s Bernie Pazanowski.
When a judge in another case testified at Steinberg’s sanction hearing, rather than apologizing, Steinberg yelled at him and tried to intimidate him, Pazanowski writes.
Read the Bloomberg Law article.
