Timestampgate: Snell & Wilmer Associate Resigns
Last week, we did an item on Judge Dale Kimball (D. Utah) benchslapping some Snell & Wilmer lawyers for allegedly engaging in questionable conduct involving the court’s time stamp machine and outside drop box.
Yesterday the WSJ Law Blog put up a post on the controversy. Most of their post will be familiar to readers of our earlier item. But here’s a new tidbit they unearthed:
The Law Blog spoke with Alan Sullivan, managing partner of Snell & Wilmer’s Salt Lake City office, who said that his law firm took responsibility for the improperly dated court filings. He also confirmed said that a Snell & Wilmer associate staffed on the Yamaha matter resigned from the law firm on Friday.
A question: Was the associate in question entirely responsible for the alleged conduct? Or did partner Tracy Fowler, who remains at Snell & Wilmer, know anything about it?
In case you’re curious, we believe that this individual is the associate who resigned last week. Her bio on the Snell & Wilmer website was functional as of Friday, but it has since been taken down. If you go to where her bio used to be, you’re informed that “the current record has been deleted.”
Thank God for Google Cache and Archive.org. For those of you who are curious — nobody’s forcing you to look at it — a screenshot of this associate’s bio appears after the jump.
Here’s the screencap. If you don’t like the fact that this material continues to be available, even though it no longer appears on the active Snell & Wilmer website, please take it up with Google Cache and Archive.org. Thank you.
Backdating, Lawyer Style [WSJ Law Blog]
Snell & Wilmer bio [Google cache]
Snell & Wilmer bio [Archive.org]
Earlier: Benchslapped: Don’t F**k with Time Stamps, You WILL Get Busted
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Comments
See what happens when you hier second tier graduates.
Lat you should reconsider the title of your articles. I almost missed the fact that the associate involved in the scandal resigned!
It's also a shame you missed her website profile before they took it down. She wasn't bad looking.
"Character comes through"
This sucks. Not only are associates forced to beg for scraps from the partners' abundant dinner table, but they're also the first thrown under the bus. Every code of ethics in this country places the burden of propriety on the supervising partner. What makes this case any different?
4:13, it places the burden on the supervising attorney. Not the supervising partner. That code is only relevant when an attorney is supervising a non-attorney.
Re 4:13: It depends on whether the associate was taking the initiative to let her character come through. It's hard to believe that the partner supervising the matter didn't know what was going on, but I'm sure if you asked he'd be shocked, shocked to discover such horrible conduct.
Do you think they now have an opening?
Here's the link to the Utah Rules:
http://www.utcourts.gov/resources/rules/ucja/13_proco/5_1.htm
Seems pretty clear to me that the partner has supervisory responsibility over all attorneys working beneath him or her.
Was there an opportunity to "mitigate" this particular violation of the rules? The judge had warned both parties about similar suspected conduct. Hang 'em high, I say!
4:46, Please notice the word "and" in 5.1(c)(2).
she was a summer intern at SCOTUS. awkward?
I know this is all very funny, but . . FYI . . . Univ of Utah Law School is a top-tier law school, and has been since the ratings system began.
Really? What is "top-tier"?
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/law/brief/lawrank_brief.php
http://www.lawschool100.com/