Attorney Richard Abbott of Brookline, MA; ethical troll

The state of Massachusetts presented Richard Abbott with a law license in 1983 after he graduated from Suffolk University School of Law.

The Board of Bar Overseers found Dick guilty of engaging in the following misconduct.

• Engaged in conduct involving fraud, deceit, dishonesty, or misrepresentation
• Neglected client’s case
• Negligence led to client’s direct appeal being dismissed
• Failed to push forward a motion for a new trial on client’s behalf
• Fabricated a letter to his client involving failure to move for a new trial
• Forged or caused to be forged another lawyer’s signature
• Made several material misrepresentations to bar counsel (Screw you, said Dick!)
• Convinced his client to sign a document he did not understand
• Engaged in an extended pattern of improper and unethical behavior

As a direct consequence of his misconduct, the cheerleaders for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Board of Overseers punished Dick by gifting him with a complimentary 30-month suspension of his law license. 

As we speak (ca. March 2022), Dick practices his so-called brand of law at 314 Harvard Street in Brookline, Massachusetts.