court cases involving Legal assistants unethical or illegal act.

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Request for Question Clarification by cynthia-ga on 01 Feb 2005 17:00 PST

Is this the type of document you are looking for?

I left it in the cached html view so you can scroll to the relevant
portions quickly.

WASHINGTON COURT DISQUALIFIES FIRM FOR FAILURE TO RETURN OPPONENT?S
PRIVILEGED E-MAILS
Daines v. Alcatel, S.A., 194 F.R.D. 678 (E.D. Wash. 2000)
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:37O6wLYqD0MJ:www.stoel.com/resources/newsletters/ethics/counsel_10.pdf+unethical+paralegal+%22court+case%22&hl=en

~~Cynthia

Lawyers get assistants daily.... Is there more to this question?

Do you mean where a paralegal might have done something unethical or illegal?

http://crossword.uniontrib.com/news/metro/20020731-9999_2m31badlaw.html

Behind the walls of San Diego's downtown federal prison, Andrew Viesca
Jr. gained a reputation for skillfully connecting criminal suspects
with lawyers.

Viesca didn't have a law license himself, but to some defendants he
had an edge over many of the attorneys in town. He spoke Spanish,
which made it easy for him to communicate with Mexican clients. And
his office, which he shared with two attorneys, was down the street
from the prison ? convenient for visiting relatives who wanted to drop
in for bail information.

Viesca, 51, a legal assistant, is now fighting criminal charges of his
own and is scheduled to go on trial in federal court in October. He is
accused of duping defendants and their relatives into hiring him as
their lawyer.


Then from here: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030222-9999_2m22lawyer.html

Viesca pleaded guilty to duping 19 defendants into hiring him