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Attorney Kermit Goodman of Pittsfield, MA; ethical dwarf
The state of Massachusetts presented Kermit S. Goodman with a law license in 1977.
The Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers found Kermit guilty of the following misconduct.
Kermit was hired by a client to represent him in a personal injury claim arising from an auto accident that involved a buss on which the client was a passenger. At the time he was hired, the client was 19-years old.
After Kermit filed the lawsuit in Superior Court, the defendants sent him interrogatories and document requests, which he then forwarded to his client. The client then sent Kermit draft answers to the interrogatories; however the answers were incomplete. Over the next seven (7) months Kermit never attempted to contact his client to obtain the missing information.
Shortly thereafter, the defendants filed an application with the court to dismiss the client’s lawsuit due to the failure to provide answer to interrogatories. The trial court subsequently entered a judgment against Kermit’s client in dismissing his lawsuit. Kermit never told his client that the case had been dismissed and never attempted to have the dismissal judgment reversed. The client learned about the dismissal over a year later after his mother contacted the Superior Court clerk’s office.
As one would suspect, this wasn’t Kermit’s 1st bite at the attorney misfit Apple Tree. He received two prior complimentary admonitions for delay in disbursing funds to a client and for neglecting an appeal of an administrative order that resulted in a dismissal of his client’s appellate rights.
As a consequence of his misconduct, the enablers for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Board of Bar Overseers punished Kermit by gifting him with a complimentary reprimand.
As we speak (ca. December 2012) Kermit practices at 23 First Street in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
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