A Cravath Lawyer Who Screws the Kiddies
And we’re not talking about CSM partners working young associates to death, riding them hard and putting them away wet. We’re speaking more literally.
We mentioned this story briefly at the time of his guilty plea, but his sentencing yesterday gives us the opportunity to revisit it in more depth. From the AP:
A tax lawyer who paid a woman so he could have sex with her two underage daughters was sentenced Thursday and declared a sex offender but wasn’t expected to spend much more time behind bars.James Colliton pleaded guilty this month to second- and third-degree statutory rape and patronizing a prostitute. He received a sentence of one year on each count, to run concurrently.
But because he has already been jailed for 19 months, Colliton, 43, was eligible for immediate release. His lawyer, Howard Greenberg, said he expected the defendant to be released Thursday.
So where’s Colliton headed? Due to his felony conviction, he won’t be able to return to the practice of law (at least not immediately). But might Cravath give him a non-legal or administrative job, perhaps in Recruiting? He likes working with young people.
(Such a gig, however, probably wouldn’t pay Colliton the $500,000 salary that he earned as a senior or permanent associate at Cravath — more than partners at some firms.)
NYC Lawyer Sentenced for Underage Sex [AP]
‘Lolita Lawyer’ among worst of sex offenders [New York Daily News]
Former Cravath Associate Pleads Guilty in Underage Sex Scandal [New York Law Journal]
In Plea Deal, Ex-Cravath Lawyer Admits To Sex Crimes [WSJ Law Blog]
Earlier: Tax Lawyers in Jail
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Lat... you're sick.
Fry him!
Hey, they let homosexuals and transvestites in, why not registered sex offenders? I'm surprised there's not an Al Sharpton march on City Hall for registered sex offenders. They're people too. By the way, to lump this guy in with dudes who diddle 5 year olds is kind of ridiculous (unless he diddled 5 year olds).
You don't have to answer to the state bar for your conviction and 19 months in jail for being homosexual or a transvestite.
According to the NYLJ article, the girls were 13 and 15 years old at the time.
"But might Cravath give him a non-legal or administrative job, perhaps in Recruiting? He likes working with young people."
Wow. That's hilarious. He paid somebody to rape two very young girls. "He likes working with young people": get it?!
“My client made $500,000 a year,” he said. “He had the wherewithal to pay for any piece of tuchus on the planet. And he paid that skank?”
Um, that's the best part of the story....
The only problem is he should have been consistent with the yiddish and followed up by calling her a "shiksa" instead of a "skank." I also think it would have been less offensive...if that's even possible.
10:56, if your name wasn't "Troll"...
What is the deal with him making $500k? I thought Cravath seniors maxed out at $265k? Was he making almost that much again in bonues?
Anyone know where he went to school? I am guessing Cornell- that place is filled with crazy perverts..
Love the Poughkeepsie shout-outs -- Judge-of-the-Day Caplicki is from LaGrange, a village right outside of Poughkeepsie, home to your favorite Cravath lawyer.
Lat is a d-bag for that "comical" footnote
According to the NYS Unified Court System Attorney Directory, he graduated from NYU Law.
A fifteen-year-old girl is a sexually mature, adult woman in a strict biological sense. It is only a social construct that she is said to lack the capacity to willingly consent (we have to protect her--or maybe we have to protect ourselves--from her budding female sexuality). I fail to see what is morally reprehensible about having sex with a fifteen-year-old girl.
11:30, thanks for confessing.
I really don't see the humor in a story about the rape of a 13 year old. Next time Lat tries to get on TV, I hope they do some checking and find out that he thinks stuff like this is funny.
this is old, old news
11:30, a woman's biological maturity is not at issue. We're all familiar with the old axiom "when there's grass on the field..." What is at issue here is her mental capacity to consent - and quite frankly 15 year olds are idiots.
At 15, I pumped gas while the car was running...though I had a banging pair of tits.
8 year olds dude...8 year olds.
Most 25 year olds are idiots, but we let them breed. What's your point, 11:35?
11:35, If you need an explanation, you're one of those idiots.
Make that "11:48"
11:30: Okay, R. Kelly.
11:30 = Ruth Bader Ginsburg (check out her academic writings before she took the bench)
Kaavya, do you actually know any fifteen year olds? They are *children,* whether or not their bodies conceal that fact, they are most definitely children.
Obviously looks are not a Big Law requirement.
Got what a creepy photo.
Ms. Bitchy- can we date? call me :)
Obviously looks are not a Big Law requirement.
God what a creepy photo.
pughkeepsie in the house!
Why are you all so scared of female sexuality? Why do you strive to keep it under cover--to smother it with rules and customs and taboos--for as long as you can?
Kaavya,
Nobody is scared of female sexuality, certainly not after getting their fill of it during freshman year of college. Personally, I'm scared of male sexuality that is unwilling to draw a line - a line marking the notion that while from a certain age on, women may be *sexually* mature, they are not necessarily *psychologically* mature, and not being a desperate creep, one may comfortably confine himself to the more mature crop.
I've always thought that most tax guys are closet pedophiles.
kids got mad tuchus these days. hormones in meat, you know? i'm just saying.
Kaavya,
Thank you for recognizing the validity of that age old adage: if she's old enough to bleed, she's old enough to breed.
The level of insight represented in your comments knows no bounds.
Bitchy McBitchington, III -
I didn't think females used suffixes. Also, any cute pics of those tatas you speak so highly of?
what's a "permanent associate"?
He didn't make partner, but he can stay on as a lawyer on salary (no "up and out" for him).
Clearly "Kaavya" is making silly arguments to try to get a rise out of people. But anyway, the law isn't just "smothering" "female sexuality". Sex with 15 y/o boys is illegal too, in case you haven't noticed...
To 11:14: 265k is (or until recently, was) the max salary for a senior associate. This guy is a Senior Attorney, which at Cravath is similar to a Counsel at Skadden or Special Counsel at some other firms. Generally, it is a non-equity position ranking above associate and lower than partner. Some of these people are still eligible to be partner and some are not (and some don't give a damn). At elite, equity-only, firms such as Cravath, it is the functional equivilant of a non-equity partner. $500,000 total compensation is about right.
Is it still technically a crime if the attorney is as hot as this guy is?
Hey, for a tax lawyer, he is hot.
1:17 - Pics used to be here, but the links no longer work:
http://www.abovethelaw.com/2007/09/the_eyes_of_the_law_judge_ursu.php#more
I'll have to post some new ones later.
Me and Liam, we gonna f**k that guy up mane!
A year for each? That's it? Shit, I'm surprised we don't have more people running around raping children. What's a year in jail? And he didn't even serve the full two years, he only did 19 months.
Rape's gotta be the easiest crime to get away with. If more men knew that, they'd get laid a lot more.
lawyers protecting lawyers.
If this dude was minority blue-collar worker nailing some 13-year-old prep-schooler, and he was caught after trying to flee the country (like this guy), he'd be doing about 10-15.
4:48: I completely agree. I'm astonished at the lightness of the sentence.
If he only waited two years she would have been legal at 17 in New York. The age of consent is 14 in Canada and 15 in France. People are so willing to impose their view of when human sexuality should begin on others.