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No Justice In Texas is the title of the soon to be published account of an average citizen's struggle to get justice done in Texas, which proves to be an impossibility. After a car accident, D. hired attorney Ilene Joy Smoger of Smoger & Associates [1]
to represent her - but Ilene Smoger defrauded her, partook in insurance fraud, and kept the money. Although those are serious crimes and by Texas law Ilene Smoger should have been disbarred, sent to jail and forced to refund the money stolen, the State Bar of Texas [1]
decided to break the law and not to discipline Ilene Smoger, who was allowed to remain in Dallas practicing law with a clean record. At the time, Ilene Smoger was the president of the North Dallas Bar Association. D. then proceeded to contact as many people in the government to try and help her. She contacted politicians, most notable Senator Florence Shapiro [1]
, Representative Kenny Marchant, Texas Attorney General, Texas Governor, the Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism (a misnomer) [1]
, and both candidates for the 2008 Presidency. Her case resulted in the convenient death of attorney Bryan Stone, that is, convenient for the State Bar of Texas. Mr. Stone was found dead of a gunshot to the head the day he was going to confess what he had done with the money of the insurance check both him and attorney Ilene Smoger cashed by forging the signature of their client (although Ilene Smoger had been fired for insurance fraud and embezzlement, the State Bar of Texas forced D. to keep her as an attorney and she collected money from the second insurance check, the one the lawyers forged D. signature to cash it).
For over a decade D. kept trying to get justice done in Texas. However, the State Bar of Texas and Texas politicians continue in their refusal to discipline Ilene Smoger, refund the money Ilene Smoger stole from D., and explain the reasons (other than the fact that the State Bar of Texas is a corrupt country club for lawyers) why they didn't discipline an attorney who committed state-jail felonies. D. also realized that she was not alone. There were far too many people who had been defrauded by their attorneys and the State Bar of Texas refused to discipline those attorneys. Unlike police departments that have internal affairs units, the State Bars of Texas is a self-regulating organization that refuses to regulate itself. The public has no way of knowing when an attorney is a crook or not, because both crooks and non-crooks are allowed to practice in Texas with clean records. The State Bar of Texas' decisions lack transparency, and they do not discipline dishonest attorneys. Ilene Smoger remains practicing law in Texas with a clean record. Who knows how many more crooks like her are practicing law in Texas with clean records, courtesy of the State bar of Texas.
Other articles about the State Bar of Texas failure to discipline dishonest attorneys are [1]
and [1]
, and the website [1]
The objective of No Justice In Texas is to relate D.'s experience trying to get justice done in Texas so people can be aware of what really goes on when an attorney defrauds his/her client, and to change the system. If the State Bar of Texas refuses to discipline attorneys who commit felonies and other crimes, as in the case of Ilene Smoger, then a different organization should be in charge of disciplining attorneys. that organization cannot be the Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism because they are also not interested in promoting ethics among lawyers. It must be a different organization and their decisions must be transparent for the public to see. To protect the public from predatory attorneys like Ms. Smoger, the organization in charge of discipline cannot protect the predatory attorneys. Therefore, the State Bar of Texas should not be in charge of discipline.
The State Bar of Texas is too corrupt.
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Labels: corruption, forgery, Ilene Smoger, insurance fraud, Senator Florence Shapiro, State Bar of Texas
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