Legal Industry News
March 15, 2010
Publisher’s Ex-in-house Counsel Suspended from Practice in Mass. and D.C.
In 2007, Oscar W. Weekes Jr., former in-house counsel for publishing giant Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co., was suspended from practice indefinitely for using company funds to pay his rent. On several occasions in 2001 and 2002, he had checks cut to fictitious vendors; he used one check for $3,400 to pay for his share of the rent on a Rhode Island summer home, and he used others to pay the rent on his apartment.
In 2005, after a Massachusetts court temporarily suspended him, Weekes filed an affidavit with the Washington D.C. bar, where he was also licensed, to provide notice…
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