Small Law Firms

Lawyer Hands Bar Association Feces-Smeared Check, Bar Association Not Amused

This is why I've moved to Venmo.

By  
on

Oklahoma defense attorney Mark Bailey is under fire in Oklahoma for, among other things, taking a poop-stained check to the offices of the Oklahoma Bar Association and asking that it be delivered directly to a staff member of the OBA General Counsel’s office:

When the check was delivered, the complaint said the check had a “pinched indentation and there was a brown, damp smear across its front.”…. The complaint said test results confirmed the substance on the check was fecal matter.

Bailey was also arrested for assault and battery after allegedly running his car into a woman over a parking space a couple years back, but in all these stories that understandably gets second billing compared to “fecal matter check,” because what’s a little “menacing with grievous injury” compared to scatological payments?

For his part, Bailey denies any wrongdoing, but the defense outlined in the disciplinary complaint raises even more questions:

The complaint said Bailey and his paralegal went to the office of the General Counsel. It said “Bailey denied there was anything nefarious about the check.”

His paralegal said “the checkbook had fallen between Bailey’s car seats and that the brown substance was already smeared on the check at the time she filled it in for Bailey’s signature.”

What, pray tell, goes on in Bailey’s car?!? If one opens a checkbook to find a bunch of smeared brown matter, why not flip to the next check?!? Why would a lawyer forfeit billable hours to accompany a paralegal on such a purely clerical task?!? So many questions.

OBA files complaint against attorney after fecal matter found on check [KFOR]

Sponsored

HeadshotJoe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.

Sponsored

Topics

,