Legal Opinion
Committee for Public Counsel Services v. Lookner
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided September 29, 1999No. 97-P-2138PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLaurence, J.
Norman S. Lookner is an attorney licensed to practice in the Commonwealth. As part of his practice, he was certified to, and did, accept paid assignments from the Committee for Public Counsel Services (committee) (see G. L. c. 21 ID) to represent indigent clients in cases involving custody of children, delinquency charges, and termination of parental rights. In early 1995, he was the subject of an audit by the committee which investigated his billing practices (see G. L. c. 211D,.§ 12).
A committee auditor found that Lookner had overbilled the committee $18,445 in fiscal year 1994 by billing…
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