Another disbarred attorney: making us all look bad

Why do stupid people do stupid things? Why would a disbarred attorney continue to represent clients AFTER disbarrment? I am mystified.

Attorney Barbara C. Johnson was jailed after an Andover Supreme Judicial Court justice held her in contempt for allegedly practicing law after she was disbarred.

Perhaps Johnson would prefer to have the state pay for medical care or room and board.

After all, an inmate gets free television and three meals a day as a guest of the state correctional system, right?

Todays's news ...

Disbarred lawyer jailed for contempt

Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | October 20, 2006

Barbara C. Johnson, an Andover lawyer and an unsuccessful independent candidate for governor in 2002, was jailed indefinitely yesterday after a Supreme Judicial Court justice held her in contempt for allegedly practicing law after she was disbarred.

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The Board of Bar Overseers recommended that Johnson be disbarred for numerous ethical lapses, including posting confidential information on her website about a boy who was allegedly sexually abused and mixing a former client's funds with her own.

Read the rest of the article here.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/10/20/disbarred_lawyer_jailed_for_contempt?mode=PF

There is more to the story. The story goes back a few years. She called the process under which she was disbarred a "kangaroo court. She knew what she was doing was wrong. She knew she would be punished. But she continued to rattle her sabre.

"They'll disbar me, which is fine. I'll write my judicial murder mysteries," Johnson said. "I'm going to kill off a judge in the prologue of every one. It'll be like a Where's Waldo murder mystery, and I'll use real names for the judges."

Read this four year old article for the rest of the story.

Activist lawyer disbarred Barbara Johnson ran for governor in 2002

By Brad Haynes
Eagle-Tribune

— ANDOVER - Barbara Johnson, the flamboyant Andover lawyer who fought for the rights of fathers, campaigned for governor in an antique fire engine and drove a hearse to Washington, D.C., to protest divorce laws, has been barred from practicing law in Massachusetts.

Read the rest of the story here.

http://www.eagletribune.com/local/local_story_230154535/resources_printstory

I can only shake my head in wonder and dismay ...