Letter from Oregon State Bar regarding Swiftliar French..

[fishface]

Dear Mr. ******:
Attached please find Scott Morrill's letter to Alfred French addressing your concern about his conduct. In order to receive a copy of future mailings, please respond to this e-mail and provide us with your mailing address. Thank you.
Angie Almasy
Oregon State Bar - Client Assistance Office
5200 SW Meadows Road / P. O. Box 1689
Lake Oswego, OR 97035-0889
Ph: 503-620-0222 x335 / Fax: [phone]
[e-mail]



August 26, 2004


Alfred J. French III, Esq.
Clackamas County DA's Office
Clackamas County Courthouse
807 Main Street, Room #7
Oregon City, OR 97045

Dear Mr. French:

The Oregon State Bar has received the enclosed correspondence and e-mails from numerous sources. Pursuant to Bar Rule of Procedure 2.5(a), the Client Assistance Office reviews all inquiries regarding lawyer conduct to determine whether there is credible evidence of misconduct. Some of these concerns may implicate the provisions of DR 1-102(A)(1) and DR 1-102(A)(3).

Many of the inquiries contend that your affidavit and the advertisement make representations that are misleading. Please explain what role you played in preparing and producing the affidavit and the advertisement, and your intent in doing so.

In order for me to make a fair and informed analysis, I would like to have your account of the matter on or before September 9, 2004. I am able to grant an extension of the time to respond for good cause if requested before the deadline.

A copy of your response will be sent to the inquiring parties. All material submitted by the parties in the course of this investigation is public record and both parties will receive copies.

After I review all documentation and information gathered in this matter, if I feel that further investigation is warranted or that there is credible evidence of a violation of the disciplinary rules, the matter will be referred to Disciplinary Counsel’s Office for further handling pursuant to BR 2.5(a)(2). Your failure to respond to this request will also result in the matter being referred to Disciplinary Counsel’s Office.

Sincerely,


Scott A. Morrill
Assistant General Counsel
Extension 344

[ET Awful]

1. Nice! Bar investigations are a nasty business for any attorney

It'd be nice to see the slime get disbarred.

[fishface]

4. He's already under suspension for lying to his boss

about an affair a few years ago.. this may be the nail in his lyingass coffin.

[tishaLA]

2. Haaaa! Haaaaa!

[speedoo]

3. The noose tightens on the lying whore.

Hey Al, collar feeling a little tight today?

[gratuitous]

5. Oh yeah, baby!

Don't mess with the Oregon State Bar. There are many, many legitimate gripes to be made about the legal profession. But in Oregon, from 25 years of personal observation and experience of working in law offices, I will say that the Oregon State Bar maintains the very highest standards of professionalism and ethics.

I have every confidence that Mr. French's situation will be thoroughly and fairly investigated. If he still has his bar card when this is over, it will not be because of cronyism or corruption at the Bar.

[shrub chipper]

6. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy!!!

errrr....you mean there are consequences when you lie in an affidavit???

Who knew???

[eleny]

7. It's gratifying to learn they took action

Thanks for posting the response you received. It brightened an otherwise gloomy, rainy day!

[Proud2BAmurkin]

8. Bad example for Buffy and Jody, Mr. French.

tsk

[ContinentalOp]

9. Great work DUers!

Kudos to all who wrote letters. What a great response. Imagine how great our country would be if we could hold our elected officials to these kinds of ethics standards!

[Gothmog]

10. Good Job DUers

Ethics investigation are nasty and this guy is not going to have an easy time of it. Plus whatever response he files will be immediatedly posted on the internet and used against the Swifties.

[mumon]

11. thanks!

I blogged that baby!

[markses]

12. Terrific

As an officer of the court and a member of the bar, Mr. French should have known better than to attest to events he could not possibly have witnessed, then fall back on second-hand accounts after the fact. I would love to see his actual affidavit. He can answer to charges as most people must, with evidence. It serves him right after circumventing the usual - and ethical - modes of evidence in order to engage in a smear of a fellow veteran. Eat an ethics investigation, bee-atch. Eat it.

As a proviso for lurking freepers: Mr. french has every right to speak his mind freely. He does not, however, have a right to fly in the face of every rule of conduct in the deliverance of a sworn affidavit - and he does not have an inherent right to either practice as a lawyer, nor be a member of the Oregon State Bar. these privileges are contingent on his capacity to behave within a given code of conduct. If he violates that code, his privileges can be revoked. I think only a thorough investigation will determine whether he violated that code in attesting to events in an affidavit which he could not possibly have witnessed. You all agree, right?

[Hamlette]

13. don't worry about the freepers, they HATE lying under oath

they will all most certainly agree Mr. French should be impeached, disbarred, and run out of town on a rail. As to his affiar, the freepers will pay $70 million to have every detail investigated and published and televise his deposition.

Good for the goose...

[markses]

14. LOL: I'd forgotten that Mr. French's case has all the elements that push

Freepers to vitriol: Lying in a sworn affidavit, having an affair with a secretary (freepers get worked up about sexual affairs in the office, especially when there are asymmetrical power relations!). Yes. You're quite right. The freepers will themselves condemn Mr. French and urge that he be disbarred, since they are the height of consistency, if nothing else...:evilgrin:

[blondeatlast]

15. Wow, I wrote the AGs office, didn't even think about the OBA.

This is incredible and it needs play.

[Gothmog]

16. Have the idiotic freepers picked this up yet??

I would love to see their reaction to this investigation.