A sad case out of New York involving former Wilkie Farr tax partner Patrick Carmody, who was suspended from practice for one year for charging $30,000 of personal long-distance calls to clients (Matter of Carmody, 2006 NY Slip Op 06058 (A.D. 1st Dep’t 7/27/06)). Today’s New York Law Journal has more details here.
(One puzzling aspect of the case that is not explained in either the opinion or the article: why were the phone charges so high: 129 hours at $30,000 = $232.56 per hour!)
