Board defections no cause for alarm
Investigative report on attorney sparks liability concerns
Dan Frazier’s editorial about fallout from Seaborne article
(Longer Web Version)
April 2002

Family lawyer piles up 16 complaints
Complaints about Ellen Seaborne’s honesty and fees are dismissed by Bar
(Includes sidebars about the State Bar’s response, and about the group that is forming for a possible class-action suit or ballot initiative).
By Dan Frazier
(Longer Web version, with a correction regarding “Anne” made 3/8/02)
March 2002

Seaborne's confidential instructions to staff
These confidential documents were obtained from"Rene," a person who claimed to have inside information about Ellen Seaborne's office procedures. One document explains Seaborne's policy with regard to keeping even the simplest of office procedures confidential. Other documents include "proposals" suggesting how Seaborne's staff should bill clients for various services. Note that information pertaining to dates, names of office personnel and handwritten notations have been removed from these documents by Flagstaff Tea Party in order to protect Rene's identity. The handwriten notations, pertaining mainly to amended fees on the "Intake form," have been electronically recreated. An asterisk appears in some of these notations, representing a symbol that is difficult to read, but which may be an ampersand (&).
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Posted March 2002