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Famed Lawyer Denied License

F. Lee Bailey was a legal superstar.

Maybe he wasn't as well known out here. But he was a big deal and a bigger deal than that in his own mind.

He was a member of the bar here and defended Patty Hearst. Among others.

I remember him because he cut a wide swath where he lived nearby to my family on the South Shore in Massachusetts.

He got his tit caught in the wringer by holding some clients' money a little too long and using it a little too much for his own good.

He got disbarred.

It is nice to see that there is an institutional memory and that, while he did get close to a second chance, they didn't give him one.

Labels: criminal behavior, law