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Michael Maschke Makes Fastcase 50

July 18, 2019

Every year, Fastcase (a legal research service) honors the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders with their Fastcase 50. Sensei’s Michael Maschke made the Fastcase 50 class of 2019!

From the Fastcase 50 website: Created in 2011, each year the Fastcase 50 award honors a diverse group of lawyers, legal technologists, policymakers, judges, law librarians, bar association executives, and people from all walks of life. In many cases, honorees are well known, but in many others, the award recognizes people who have made important, but unheralded contributions.

“Every part of the legal market is changing right now – from law school through every part of the practice,” said Fastcase CEO Ed Walters. “That change can be daunting or discouraging to many people. And that’s one reason that our team enjoys celebrating the accomplishments of the Fastcase 50. These are people who inspire us by their intelligence, creativity, and leadership. We hope they will inspire others as well, especially during a time of great change for the profession.”

Congratulations, Mike! See more about this honor here.

Assistant Federal Public Defender Fired for Forging Law License

July 16, 2019

Kelcie Miller, 26, previously worked for the Madison County Public Defender’s office as an attorney, despite failing the bar exam twice, from October 2018 to May, 2019. Her legal carrier is now over.

After six months on the job, Ms. Miller was terminated because she was not the licensed attorney that she claimed to be. A court reporter double-checking the spelling of the attorney’s first name against a state list of licensed attorneys noticed made the discovery and reported the discrepancy.

Ms. Miller has been charged with felony theft, false impersonation of an attorney and forgery. The authorities investigating the case have collected computer evidence of a forged law license used by Ms. Miller. Officers were able to obtain a search warrant in May and took possession of several items used by Ms. Miller during her employment with the Madison County government, including a cellphone.

The Telegraph reports that forensic analysis of web browser history was performed and identified several searches for “practicing law without a license,” a log-in to the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission website, and an image of a fellow attorney’s ID card. It is alleged that Ms. Miller asked attorney Daniel Harrow for a photo of his ID card so that she could show her mother a picture of what the ID card looked like. The computer evidence showed that a fake ID card image was created on May 20, 2019 which is the same day that Madison County Public Defender. John Rekowski confronted Miller about her credentials.

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Sensei Sponsors Event to Honor David Bobzien

July 16, 2019

Sensei is proud to be one of the sponsors of a ceremony in which Cathy Bobzien will receive The Virginia Law Foundation’s Executive Director’s Award in honor of her late husband, David Bobzien. VLF Director Ray White will present the award.

The Law Practice Management Section of the Fairfax Bar Association is honored to host this event which will take place on September 5th from 4-6 p.m. at the Wine House (3950 University Drive, Suite 211, Fairfax, VA.). Please contact Sharon Nelson if you are interested in sponsoring or attending this event at (703)359-0700 or snelson@senseient.com.

You can find the flyer for the event here.

Kevin Spacey Trial Update – Wild New Developments

July 11, 2019

As we wrote on June 4, actor Kevin Spacey and his attorney made spoliation claims against the accuser. This week, NBC News reported that the accuser has invoked his Fifth Amendment right in regards to testifying about the missing cellphone evidence. Counsel for the accuser told Judge Thomas Barrett of the Nantucket District Court that they have been unable to find the missing phone.

While on the stand, the accuser stated that he had not altered or deleted potential evidence on the phone in question back in 2016. Spacey’s defense attorney, Alan Jackson, reminded the accuser that altering evidence is a felony.

In response to the invocation of the Fifth Amendment, defense counsel argued that the entire case should be dismissed. As of now, Judge Barrett has not dismissed the case but did mention that the case could be dismissed due to the sole witness invoking his Fifth Amendment rights and not being able to testify. The judge set the next hearing for July 31.

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