| ► Attorney Hector Roman Jr. of Jackson Heights, NY; repeat offender |
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Attorney Hector Roman Jr. of Jackson Heights, NY; repeat offender The state of The Second Departmental Disciplinary Committee found Hector guilty of the following misconduct. In one matter, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed at least 24 of the 71 petitions for review for which the respondent was counsel of record, based on his failure to comply with that court's scheduling orders. The Court of Appeals noted that Hector had submitted orders. boilerplate motions in connection with these defaults, and where the respondent moved to reinstate the defaulted petitions, he “often relied on the same excuse for failing to comply with the applicable scheduling orders: that he had not received a copy of the scheduling order or had The not received a response to his motion for an extension of time.” In addition, Hector was found to have engaged in a pattern of dilatory conduct, multiplicity of offenses, filing of deficient briefs in multiple cases, and vulnerability of the respondent's client (victim). As one would suspect, this wasn’t Hector’s First bite at the Attorney Misfit Apple Tree. He was previously disciplined for engaging in a variety of misconduct. As a consequence of his misconduct, the Patron Saints for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Second Departmental Disciplinary Committee punished Hector by gifting him with a complimentary censure. As we speak (ca. January 2015), Hector practices with the Law Office of Hector M. Roman PC at
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