Confronted with an ethics investigation zeroing in on shady actions from securing a whole bunch of 1000’s in loans from a brain-injured shopper — secured by property the lawyer didn’t personal — to failing to reveal referral charges, New Hampshire lawyer Justin Nadeau apparently thought he may get out of his troubles by destroying his pc.

He couldn’t. He was disbarred by the state supreme courtroom.

Per the NH Journal, quoted by the Authorized Occupation Weblog:

In response to the Supreme Court docket’s disbarment order launched Tuesday, Nadeau slow-walked producing paperwork associated to the case to the PCC. The Democrat even destroyed his pc earlier than the listening to. Nadeau claims he made all the suitable battle of curiosity disclosures and finally produced printed copies of the letter he claimed he despatched her.

Nevertheless, James Berriman, the pc professional employed by the PCC, seemed by way of Nadeau’s workplace server and located the dates on the paperwork Nadeau gave to the committee had been pretend, and the paperwork had been created properly after he took the cash from Fahey.

Placing apart the apparent moral issues with destroying proof, how does an lawyer not notice that that is all simply discoverable at this level. Laptop forensics specialists have been catching individuals attempting to destroy proof for years now.

It’s the hubris of a JD to assume that you just’re extra intelligent than somebody who’s truly educated within the particular technical ability at challenge. We normally see this come up when judges inform us how a lot higher at medical science they’re than the FDA or know extra about pandemics as a result of they fancy themselves economists, but it surely manifests simply as often in pondering that they’re higher at pc science than everybody else.

Oops.

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