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A former partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, was arrested last month in allegations that he was not authorized to practice law and had tried to falsify their credentials.

Steven Young Lee, 31, who had worked in the prestigious law firm Securities Litigation Division since August last year, was fired last month when the company discovered that the Boston College graduate has been right to be licensed to practice law in California or elsewhere.

Lawyer Lee, Lucy McAllister, lie did not call again, and if by Monday, Lee himself said: “. I do not want to comment”

After his arrest on 29 April has been Grand Theft Lee and charged with the crime of unauthorized practice of law. If convicted of both charges, Lee faces up to five years behind bars after Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Al Weger.

While at Wilson, Sonsini, interviews, Lee, took deposits, gave legal advice and made appearances in court in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Mateo. The company has customers for a total of 9865.95 plants Lee was indicted and brought the matter to the attention of the prosecutor, Weger said.

“Work it seemed appropriate,” said Wilson, Sonsini lawyer Timothy Scott, president of the litigation department of the company. “The other lawyers seemed to have loved.”

According to a report by the Attorney Investigator Gary Medlin, the allegations unfolded April 13, when partners Leo Cunningham heard his secretary to speak with someone from the State Bar, which provides individual licenses for the profession. The secretary says The report was conducting a routine check to ensure Lee was in good standing with the bar. (from the practice of law in California must be a bar to review and ethical review.) The bar

However, Secretary said that the number they are not available to Lee. Cunningham then faced with the employee, the report said, and Lee said he must have misspelled the number down. He said he would check his card cash and the exact number of Cunningham, the report said.

Lee Cunningham available later with a different number, which records the status bar has been made was one Steve YC Lee, who lived in Sacramento. Steven Y. Lee finally admitted he was not in a state, the report said. He was immediately suspended, and that day sent a change of address form at the helm of the State of California and requested a duplicate card bar owned by Steve Lee YC, the list Wilson as his new employer. Less than a week after he was fired, Lee filed a CV, a recruitment firm legal frameworks to find a new job as a lawyer, the report said.

“This is an obvious attempt on his part to steal the number bar Steve Lee YC” concluded the report. Meanwhile, the Sacramento attorney said this week it was considering legal action against the negligence of Wilson, Sonsini. “At a minimum, Wilson has acted negligently,” said Steve Lee YC. “All it takes is a search. … What should companies do not have background checks? “

Scott defended the company hiring practices, and it that such an incident never said.

“We check references, and we are in this case,” he said. The status bar of the site, which lists Steve YC. Getting through law school and passing – the number of bar and Lee other counsel is available to all

Ironically, Steven Y. Lee about what most aspiring lawyers the most difficult parts of getting a required inspection process. The prosecutor said he spent the bar in at least two states, and in 1993 he graduated from Boston College Law School.

A short time later, however, Lee did what would be worse than a mistake. It was not that (to more than half of survey participants) failed the test in Massachusetts, but he lied about the results of work with a company in this state, country, prosecutors said. If the company Lee has found.

fired in 1994 Lee moved to New York and took the bar exam for that state. He went, but because of the incident in Massachusetts, he was rejected in of a review of ethical behavior – a step almost superficial many lawyers. Then said the prosecutors, he said the law firm of Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky, it does have a license – has said, and worked until he was 15 months lie was later discovered, prosecutors

Add. 1997 Lee moved to Brian Cave LLP in Los Angeles to work. There was less than two weeks if the company that did not find a license to practice in California, prosecutors said. February this year, Lee passed the bar exam in California. But the report says, “He never followed through the procedures necessary to obtain a license. “