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Attorney Marvin Benson of Vancouver, WA; idiot, repeat offender

 

The state of Washington presented Marvin Benson with a law license in 1979 after he graduated from Lewis & Clark University Law School.

 

The Washington State Bar found Marv guilty of the following misconduct.

 

Marv’s 1st bite at the Attorney Misfit Apple Tree

  • Failed to advise clients he had a conflict of interest
  • Failed to review personal or financial information re: client purchase of estate-planning package
  • Estate package not necessary or appropriate for client
  • Estate document contained community property provisions even though the couple had never lived in a community property state during their marriage
  • Estate documents never properly executed
  • Aid non-lawyers in the illegal practice of law
  • Failed to provide competent representation (idiot)

As a consequence of his misconduct, the patron saints for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Washington Supreme Court punished Marv by gifting him with a complimentary 1-month suspension of his law license.

 

Marv’s 2nd bite at the Attorney Misfit Apple Tree

  • Failed to ascertain a client’s competence
  • Willfully purported to act as lawyer for someone w/o authority to so act
  • Failed to informed client about status of legal matter
  • Failed to comply with client information requests
  • Failed to explain a matter to the extent reasonably necessary to permit the client to make informed decisions regarding the representation

As a consequence of his misconduct, the patron saints for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Washington Supreme Court punished Marv by gifting him with a complimentary reprimand.

 

As we speak (ca. October 2016), Marv practices at 1014 Franklin Street in Vancouver, Washington. 

 

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