Sad story in the New York Law Journal: Partner Disbarred for Stealing From Firm, by Anthony Lin:
A former Manhattan law firm partner who filed false expense reports for almost $200,000 to pay his yacht club membership and credit card bills has been disbarred. Robert J. Pape, a former trusts and estates partner at New York’s Putney, Twombly, Hall & Hirson, charged personal expenses both to his firm and to his clients. He frequently sought reimbursement multiple times for the same item in a practice known as "double dipping."
Indeed, the referee who heard the disciplinary case against Pape marveled that the lawyer had elevated double dipping to an art form. "He showed a brilliance in the way he expanded the double dip system," wrote the referee, Benjamin Altman. "[Pape’s] scheme created a host of different ways to defraud, i.e., billing two clients when neither was involved, billing a non-existent client, billing two different clients when no evidence of appointments were in any diary or calendar."



