Attorney Richmond Odom of West Monroe, LA; thieving loser

The state of Louisiana presented Richmond C. Odom with a law license in 1986 after he graduated from Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Law.

The Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board found Dick guilty of engaging in the following misconduct.

• Systematically converted $260,334.24 in principal funds belonging to the CRUT (Theodore A. Hardaway Charitable
• Remainder Unitrust)
• In total, Dick committed 160 separate acts of conversion (theft)
• Dick used the converted funds to pay his credit card bills, rent, and salaries
• Dick was required to make distributions on a quarterly basis to the settlor’s children, Nancy Hardaway Lutz, Barbara Hardaway Murray, and Carey J. Hardaway (the “income beneficiaries”)
• Engaged in conduct involving deceit, dishonesty, fraud, or misrepresentation
• Commingled client funds with personal funds
• Misconduct involved multiple offenses
• Knowingly mismanaged the CRUT trust funds
• Failed to properly supervise his office staff
• Negligently violated duties owed to the CRUT
• Engaged in a pattern of misconduct
• Failed to act as an appropriate fiduciary to the CRUT
• Failed to be forthright with the income beneficiaries
• Dick’s conduct caused actual harm to the CRUT and to the income beneficiaries
• Misconduct involved dishonest and selfish motive

As a direct consequence of his misconduct, the enablers for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Louisiana Supreme Court punished Dick by gifting him with a complimentary stayed 3-year suspension of his law license effective December 9, 2022.  

As we speak (ca. January 2023), Dick will resume his so-called brand of law at 117 Lafayette Circle in West Monroe, Louisiana in late 2025.