In the Matter Of: Steven J. Riggs

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• disbarring an attor- ney and emphasizing that the “[a]bandonment of one’s (imprisoned) client in a criminal case is one of the most serious offenses a lawyer can commit”
• “ [Attorney] would have us believe that he kept all of his legal work on floppy disks (or other removable media), of which he kept no backups. . . . . [Attorney’s] explanation thus does not hang together.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).