Month: September 2022

WICHITA, Kan. (WIBW) – A business lawyer in Wichita has been suspended from practicing law in Kansas for a year after multiple violent crime charges for hitting his wife and ex-wife and lying about his alcoholism.

The Kansas Supreme Court says in the case of Case No. 124,955: In the Matter of Jason M. Janoski, that it decided to suspend Janoski from the practice of law for one year in response to violations of the Kansas Rules of Professional Conduct.

According to the Court, Janoski, a business and employment lawyer in Wichita, violated the following Rules:

• 3.1 – Meritorious claims
• 3.4 – Fairness to opposing party and counsel
• 4.2 – Communication with a represented person
• 8.3 – Reporting professional misconduct
• 8.4(c) – Engaging in professional misconduct that involves dishonesty
• 8.4(d) – Engaging in professional misconduct prejudicial to the administration of justice
• 8.4(g) – Engaging in professional misconduct that adversely

Johnny Depp’s attorney, Camille Vasquez, has taken on a new celebrity client, signing on to represent Yellowstone star Q’orianka Kilcher in her legal battle against the state of California.

Vasquez represented Depp in the six-week-long, multi-million dollar defamation trial between the actor and his ex-wife Amber Heard earlier this year, emerging as a celebrity in her own right as she was applauded numerous times in the courtroom.

After the jury declared that Heard defamed the Pirates of the Caribbean star, awarding him $10.35 million in damages, Vasquez was promoted to partner of the Brown Rudnick law firm.

She is once again taking on a high-profile case, representing Kilcher, who was charged earlier this year with two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud. The case was filed by the California Department of Insurance in July, alleging that the actor collected disability benefits while working on the show despite claiming she was

Fake German heiress Anna Sorokin has filed court papers seeking to hold her fired lawyer in criminal contempt for failing to turn over records she needs to fight a deportation order and appeal her criminal conviction.

But the attorney, responded bluntly to the claim. ‘She could kiss my a**,’ Audrey Thomas told DailyMail.com.

Sorokin, 31, continues to languish in ICE custody in a New York jail and is asking a Supreme Court judge to punish Thomas with potential jail, fines and attorney fees.

The convicted fraudster claims Thomas should be punished for her ‘failure, neglect and willful refusal’ to comply with an order issued by Manhattan Judge Diane Kiesel in July that she turn over Sorokin’s entire case file by August 5.

Sorokin’s lawyers claim Thomas is still withholding crucial documents, including digital audio recordings of her immigration proceedings, and personal property.

Dozens of attorneys who attained a landmark $1.1 billion wrongful-death settlement in the Surfside condominium calamity learned their cut of the class-action case on Monday. It won’t be as much as they had hoped to receive from a Miami-Dade judge.

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman awarded attorneys’ fees of $65 million — about two-thirds of the $100 million lawyers had requested before the settlement was approved in June. In addition, Hanzman granted an extra $6.5 million in fees to lawyers who participated in his recent review of victims’ damage claims in the collapse of Champlain Towers South.

Some relatives of the 98 people who died when the building tumbled down on June 24, 2021, said that while their lawyers did and

Morgan Stanley has ordered an internal lawyer to shadow the unit entangled in a federal investigation into block trading, underscoring the gravity of the probe and the steps the lender is taking to beef up supervision.

The Wall Street bank has embedded one of its lawyers to sit on its US equity syndicate desk to supervise bankers and answer their legal questions, according to people briefed on the arrangement.

The decision to install the lawyer was made after Morgan Stanley placed Pawan Passi, head of the US equity syndicate desk, on leave last year, the people added.

It is the latest example of the fallout from the investigations by the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission into Morgan Stanley’s block trading business, which gathered momentum after the collapse last year of Bill Hwang’s Archegos Capital Management.

Block trades are bulk sales of shares executed by an investment bank,