If I were Derrick Gillenwater I would play the same game that Jeffrey Denner played on him to circumvent Rule 9A. After all, he's got a good argument and I'm sure the Court will treat him fairly because the Judges would never want to show favoritism for a man of privilege versus a man of modest means.
If I were Derrick Gillenwater I would play the same game that Jeffrey Denner played on him to circumvent Rule 9A. After all, he's got a good argument and I'm sure the Court will treat him fairly because the Judges would never want to show favoritism for a man of privilege versus a man of modest means.
Hrones’s straits have elicited expressions of sympathy from some fellow criminal defense lawyers, including Jeffrey A. Denner of Boston, who replaced Hrones as Rockefeller’s lawyer three months after the defendant was arrested on Aug. 2, 2008, on charges of abducting his 7-year-old daughter, Reigh Storrow Mills Boss, during a supervised visit in the Back Bay.
Stephen B. Hrones allegedly let a paralegal pass himself off as a lawyer in the firm’s employment discrimination practice.
Hrones fired him in the fall of 2004 after learning that Porter had kept fees in violation of an agreement to split them.
Rockefeller was convicted on June 12, 2009, of parental kidnapping and assault charges.
The state Board of Bar Overseers recommended in October that Hrones’s license be suspended for a year and a day for the alleged misconduct. The Supreme Judicial Court plans to hear appeals in May from Hrones, who says he deserves no suspension, and from the state’s bar counsel, which had recommended a two-year suspension.
His “assistance to Porter was anything but passive,’’ she wrote. Hrones was “Porter’s enabler and protector, and he continued to enable and protect Porter long after he was on notice of Porter’s malfeasance,’’ she added.
Porter bungled a series of cases; got Hrones’s firm barred from appearing before MCAD, which short-circuit ed active cases; and kept clients’ fees for himself, according to the board’s Oct. 19 recommendation of suspension.