{"id":4579,"date":"2003-09-10T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2003-09-10T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2003\/09\/10\/ethics-charges-come-late-in-m"},"modified":"2011-08-05T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:00:40","slug":"ethics-charges-come-late-in-miami-benlate-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/09\/10\/ethics-charges-come-late-in-miami-benlate-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics Charges Come Late in Miami Benlate Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Miami Daily Business Review\/<\/EM>law.com<\/A> reports that the Florida Bar has brought ethics charges against two Miami attorneys for alleged violations committed almost a decade ago relating to Benlate settlements with DuPont. (“Miami Attorneys Face Bar Investigations Over Benlate Settlement,” by <\/SPAN>Matthew Haggman, 09-10-2003)<\/FONT><\/SPAN> According to the article:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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[Louis V. Vendittelli and Phillip J. Sheehe] are charged with concealing the details of the settlement agreement from two clients and, as a result, pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars. The complaints also allege that the two lawyers later knowingly misled the court about details of the settlement.<\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/FONT>
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The partners are alleged to have violated a dozen rules of professional conduct.  The article outlines the basic facts alleged.  Both attorneys deny any wrongdoing.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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We don’t know the strength of the case against Vendittelli and Sheehe, but ethicalEsq? <\/EM>is pleased to see an ethics committee willing to tackle an old and complex grievance.   If the charges are upheld, we believe that discipline delayed can still serve justice well, and prove a strong deterence against similar covert fraud and deception.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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  • Verbal Quibble from Jackie Cliente: <\/FONT><\/STRONG>The MDBR <\/EM>reporter noted: “Ir<\/U>onically<\/U>, this is not the first time plaintiff attorneys have been charged with unethical conduct in a Benlate case with DuPont.”  The Word Usage Panel (WUP) at ethicalEsq? <\/EM>is scandalized by the misuse of the perfectly good adverb “ironically.”  There is no incongruity between what has happened and what was expected to happen and, thus, no irony.  We suggest the substitution of words such as “coincidentally” or “improbably” for the misused “ironically,” or the omission of an adverb, letting the sentence stand on its own facts<\/FONT>.<\/FONT><\/FONT>   <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/LI><\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Miami Daily Business Review\/law.com reports that the Florida Bar has brought ethics charges against two Miami attorneys for alleged violations committed almost a decade ago relating to Benlate settlements with DuPont. (“Miami Attorneys Face Bar Investigations Over Benlate Settlement,” by Matthew Haggman, 09-10-2003) According to the article: [Louis V. Vendittelli and Phillip J. Sheehe] are charged with concealing the details […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1bR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14143,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions\/14143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}