Wyoming Bar Watch, are you aware Mark Gifford is going to teach a CLE for dealing with dishonest lawyers? He is the perfect person to teach this CLE because Mark Gifford is the most dishonest lawyer, in my opinion. Gifford tells outright lies or white lies when you deal with him. As an example, he arbitrarily creates deadlines for responses and tells those of us dealing with him this is a drop dead deadline after which matters will get worse. These are not real deadlines and his stating they are is a lie. As another example, he alleges and has charged at least one Wyoming lawyer for representing his own interests at a hearing when Gifford represented himself in his latest divorce. His divorce records are on file in Laramie County. This is dishonest conduct.
He is fully conscious of the power he holds as bar counsel and he uses this power to intimidate lawyers far less knowledgeable of the system. How does the Wyoming State Bar tolerate Mark Gifford teaching a CLE on honesty while being aware that the same Mark Gifford has reportedly lied to and cheated on three prior wives and reportedly engaged in an affair with a Wyoming State Bar employee? I say reportedly but Gifford has never denied that he cheated on his former wives or affiliated sexually with a Wyoming State Bar employee while she was married. Maybe the bar takes the position that it takes a thief to catch a thief and so the biggest liar is qualified to teach a course on dishonest lawyers. There is more dishonest conduct. Mark Gifford had the disciplinary code changed so he could investigate lawyers without complaint and uses the professional rules for his own vendettas and dislikes; reportedly has had lawyers who represented other lawyers investigated for challenging the ethical charges; intimidates lawyers who represent other lawyers into bad deals; misrepresents the severity of (mis)conduct; breaches confidentiality by talking about lawyers in the system; and overcharges lawyers hoping (as has been true) the BPR will figure some charges should stick. Don't forget that Gifford can investigate and charge members of the BPR and so fairness is really impossible.
These are not the acts of an honest person in my opinion. Beyond all of those bad acts, Mark Gifford terrorizes lawyers he pulls into the disciplinary system with the threatened loss of their license. I've talked to people who have gone through discipline and so should you.
I just cannot get past the almost unbelievable fact that this unethical lawyer - Mark Gifford - is bar counsel. What a poor choice from the state bar and judiciary.
Wow...unbelieveale to find this article on Mr. Mark Gifford..I recently sent a complaint to Mr. Mark Gifford informing him that I believe that an attorney in Casper, Wyoming by the name of Ann Rochelle was taking my mothers money who is 79 years old and acting unethically and he brushed me off and said he did not see anything wrong with this attorneys behavior and would not be investigating it. Later the Judge recused himself from the Case because apparently the Judge himself did see something unethical with the case.How do these people get to serve on these boards and who is lining their pockets so as not to perform necessary investigations and lastly who the heck are these board of attorneys looking out for besides themselves??
ReplyDeleteWow...unbelieveale to find this article on Mr. Mark Gifford..I recently sent a complaint to Mr. Mark Gifford informing him that I believe that an attorney in Casper, Wyoming by the name of Ann Rochelle was taking my mothers money who is 79 years old and acting unethically and he brushed me off and said he did not see anything wrong with this attorneys behavior and would not be investigating it. Later the Judge recused himself from the Case because apparently the Judge himself did see something unethical with the case.How do these people get to serve on these boards and who is lining their pockets so as not to perform necessary investigations and lastly who the heck are these board of attorneys looking out for besides themselves??
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