NYC Attorney Disbarred For Stealing From Clients Refuses To Stop Practicing Law; Arrested Last Week For 3rd Time Since Losing License

In New York City, the New York Post reports:

• Practice doesn't necessarily make perfect. An elderly Manhattan lawyer, banished from the legal profession for stealing from clients, could spend his golden years in prison - because he refuses to stay out of the city's courthouses.

• At an age when most career attorneys have taken to the golf course, all 81- year-old Bertram Brown wants to do is work, something he is now alleged to have done three times under an alias since his disbarment.

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• Brown, a Columbia Law grad and an attorney for nearly a half-century, surrendered to Brooklyn prosecutors last week for allegedly using a phony name to represent a client in a housing-court case.

• He's been without a license since April 2006, when he was disbarred for stealing $54,000 from a Queens man [William Ryan] who had hired him to stop the foreclosure on his Ozone Park home.

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• Brown was also charged with stealing more than $20,000 from one of Ryan's neighbors, whom he represented in the sale of her Ozone Park home, authorities said.

For more, see COURT IN OB-SESSION (Crooked Attn'y Refuses To Stop Practicing).