Attorney’s Defective Disclosure Delays Imposition of Sanction
A former in-house attorney who used company funds to cover rent for his summer home won't be practicing in Washington anytime soon. The D.C. Court of Appeals stopped short of disbarring former Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing attorney Oscar W. Weekes Jr., who argued that he had filed an affidavit in 2005 that provided adequate notice in Washington of his suspension from practice in Massachusetts. The panel determined the affidavit was insufficient and issued a five-year suspension effective on June 24, 2008.
