Mr. [Lincoln] Bandlow has a professional responsibility to refrain from acting as counsel in more cases than he can handle at one time… Mr. Bandlow’s conduct constitutes willful disobedience of court orders, which is tantamount to bad faith.
—U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn Delaney, deciding to sanction Fox Rothschild partner, Lincoln Bandlow, to the tune of $750 for missing deadlines in numerous copyright cases filed by the Biglaw firm on behalf of their porn studio client, Strike 3. Judge Delaney said the missed deadlines were not “mere inadvertence or recklessness.” She also rejected Bandlow’s proffered excuses — that the firm had technical issues related to a calendaring program and that they were short staffed over the holidays — saying “the practice of law predates the computer,” and that a Biglaw firm blaming missed deadlines on staffing woes was “inexcusable.” Strike 3 filed 2,185 copyright cases last year, and this isn’t the first time Fox Rothschild has gotten benchslapped over the representation.
