New Jersey Suspends Lawyer for False Grades on Resume

Dishonesty 1 Minute

The New Jersey Supreme Court has suspended an attorney for one year for submitting an altered transcript to a law firm when he was seeking employment. The case was decided on March 13, 2020. There were 26 misrepresentations on the transcript. The lawyer had no prior discipline. The court found violations of Rule 8.1(b) and 8.4(d).

In re Seth Asher Nadler, March 13, 2020.

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B.A. University of Chicago, 1988, J.D. Harvard Law School, 1991, Clerk to the Honorable Michael S. Kanne, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1991-1992, Mayer Brown 1992-1996, Katten Muchin 1996-97, The Clinton Law Firm, 1997 -. I practice in the areas of commercial litigation, legal malpractice and legal ethics.

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