Legal Ethics

You'll Never Guess This Woman's Name

Wouldn't you try to have this name changed?

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The Oklahoma Supreme Court accepted the resignation of a lawyer named Betty Pitts-Cartwright. That’s not all that exciting. But then you read a little bit more about the case and discover that the Pitts-Cartwright office boasted a staff right out of Green Acres central casting:

Betty Pitts-Cartwright, 61, of Afton; Julie Anne Pitts, 37, of Langley and Heather Hogshooter, 24, of Spavinaw are each charged in Delaware County District Court with obtaining property by fraud. Cartwright also faces three additional counts of contradictory statements as perjury.

Pitts is Cartwright’s daughter and Hogshooter is her former employee.

Excuse me, “Hogshooter”? And an alliterative “Heather Hogshooter” to boot. Is this a law school exam? I’d have thought the family would specifically request Ellis Island change that one.

My cursory research reveals that the Hogshooter Formation is a limestone formation and lucrative oil field in Oklahoma. Maybe that’s why there’s no rush to change the name: it ties the family to old oil money.

Next season, on Downton Abbey, “My lord and ladies, may I present, Ms. Hogshooter, of the Delaware County Hogshooters.”

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