Employment of Kyle D. Sampson reflects poorly on Hunton & Williams, LLP, No.3

Updated March 10, 2009 to reflect Mr. Sampson’s leave of absence from Hunton & Williams.
Cross-posted at the Oxdown Gazette, Firedoglake’s new diary blog.
My third e-mail to Ms. Field:
Andrea Bear Field
DC Office Managing Partner
Hunton & Williams
cc: Kyle D. Sampson , Partner
Hunton & Williams
Dear Ms. Field,
On behalf of The Grievance Project, I would appreciate Hunton & Williams’s [...]

Virginia lawyers file grievance against Monica Marie Goodling

As reported by Frank Green in the Richmond Times Dispatch (h/t Debra Cassens Weiss at the ABA Journal via Matt Berman at TPMMuckaker ) on September 16, 2008, attorney William R. Wilder prepared a grievance complaint against Monica Marie Goodling and he and several other attorneys filed the complaint with the Virginia Bar:
Monica Goodling resigned [...]

E-mail to William R. Wilder

Willia

Had enough yet?

The Legal Schnauzer shares a letter he recently received. In his post, Message From a Political Prisoner, he describes the receipt of the letter as “a profound experience recently, something I never dreamed would happen to me as a U.S. citizen.” He explains:
My letter was from Wes Teel, a former state judge in [...]

Update: E-mail to Professor John Yoo

Professor John C. Yoo
U.S. District Court Judge
jyoo@law.berkeley.edu
Dear Professor Yoo:
I previously sent this e-mail back in April of this year, but, unfortunately, left out the ‘j’ so I sent it to y-o-o @ law.berkeley.edu. I noticed this error today after reading your op-ed, Supreme Court grabbed more power in recent term, in The Philadelphia Enquirer, [...]

Sen. Murkowski’s ‘reply’ to my web-mail

Yesterday, I sent a web-mail to Sen. Murkowski in which I requested her to reply to my allegations that she engaged in conduct that raise a substantial question as to her honesty, trustworthiness and fitness as a lawyer. Today, I received the following ‘reply’ from Sen. Murkowski:
Thank you for contacting my office. I will [...]

Web-mail to Sen. Lisa Murkowski

Updated 08-11-08 with this ‘reply‘ from Sen. Murkowski.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski
United States Senate
Contact via webmail
Washington, D.C. Office
709 Hart Senate Building
Washington D.C., 20510
202-224-6665
Fax 202-224-5301
Anchorage Office
510 L. Street, Suite 550
Anchorage, AK 99501
907-271-3735
Fax 907-276-4081
Fairbanks Office
101 12th Avenue
Room 216
Fairbanks, AK 99701
907-456-0233
Fax 907-451-7146
Juneau Delegation Office
P.O. Box 21247
709 West 9th Street, Room 971
Juneau, AK 99802
907-586-7400
Fax 907-586-8922
Kenai Delegation Office
110 Trading Bay Road
Suite 105
Kenai, [...]

Legal Schnauzer as interpreted by attorney legal*

Although I appreciated very much this post at Legal Schnauzer and the new visitors it generated here at the Grievance Project, I didn’t intend to post about it until I saw this post at attorney legal*.
Compare the schnauzery Legal Schnauzer:
E.M.’s efforts hit close to home for us here at Legal Schnauzer. As someone who has [...]

TGP had some interesting visitors this week

My posts on Kyle Sampson and Monica Marie Goodling received relatively strong traffic here at The Grievance Project. My sincere thanks to each of you who stopped
That site traffic included visitors from the following federal agencies that I found to be notable:

U.S. Senate Sergeant At Arms
USDA Office of Operations
US Department of Justice (multiple visits [...]

Welcome, USDOJ.

Thank you for visiting The Grievance Project.  (Statcounter and Sitemeter information is at the end of this post).
Earlier today, your boss, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, testified before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Attorney General Mukasey concluded his prepared remarks with the following statement:
As I have said many times, to members [...]

E-mail to House Judiciary Committee regarding John Yoo

U.S House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary via Committee Contact Form
Honorable John Conyers, Jr., Chairman, via House Contact Form
Hon. Howard L. Berman via House Contact Form
Hon. Rick Boucher via House Contact Form
Hon. Jerrold Nadler via House Contact Form
Hon. Robert C. Scott via House Contact Form
Hon. Melvin L. Watt via House Contact Form
Hon. Zoe Lofgren [...]

Horton hears a Yoo

Updated April 23, 2008 to add poster art parody courtesy of the talented nonnie9999 who has many more posters at Hysterical Raisins. If I knew how, I would add this caption: … and then he rebuked him. Many thanks, Nonnie.
As Melissa from Writechic Press noted here, New York attorney and Columbia Law [...]

E-mail to Professor John Yoo

Updated August 11, 2008 to correct the address of Professor Yoo.
Professor John C. Yoo
U.S. District Court Judge
yoo@law.berkeley.edu
Dear Professor Yoo:
I have been researching the conduct of various attorneys in the service of the government of the United States, whether that conduct is a violation of the rules of professional conduct with which each such attorney must [...]

E-mail to Judge Mark Everett Fuller

Judge Mark Everett Fuller
U.S. District Court Judge
mark_fuller@almd.uscourts.gov
Dear Judge Fuller,
I have been researching the conduct of various attorneys in the service of the government of the United States, whether that conduct is a violation of the rules of professional conduct with which each such attorney must comply and authoring factual allegations of conduct that establish violations [...]

A Call to Action

Far more eloquently than I have previously argued, Scott Horton called for action from the organized bar associations at No Comment last week:
It’s also time for the organized bar to act decisively. So far bar organizations have denounced the torture memoranda and issued learned reports and articles. But I’m still haunted by a question a [...]

The Grievance Project

For nearly two years, I have been watching intently the consistent and continuous dismantling of the Constitution by the President. Through December of 2006, the Congressional Republicans enabled the President both actively by passing legislation and passively by failing to fulfill their Constitutional oversight responsibilities.
When control of both houses of Congress was unexpectedly transferred to [...]