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Court suspends license of lawyer who called judge a racist

By: Erika Strebel, [email protected]//March 20, 2015//

Court suspends license of lawyer who called judge a racist

By: Erika Strebel, [email protected]//March 20, 2015//

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended the law license of the president of a religious group in northern Wisconsin who called a judge a racist.

Naomi Isaacson graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1998 and was admitted to practice law in Wisconsin 2000. Her license has been suspended since May 2011 for not cooperating with an Office of Lawyer Regulation investigation. She also has not paid State Bar dues in Wisconsin and Minnesota, has not filed for trust account certification and has not reported any continuing legal education. Isaacson’s license in Minnesota is suspended.

She could not be immediately reached Friday.

Friday’s discipline stems from an OLR complaint filed March 5, 2014, accusing her of four counts of misconduct while leading the Dr. R.C. Samanta Roy Institute of Science and Technology Inc., Shawano. The 63-page complaint detailed how Isaacson, in various affidavits and court filings, “had no apparent purpose other than to harass judicial officers, public officials, opposing counsel and others based on race, creed and religion,” according the court’s decision.

Also, during the OLR’s investigation of the allegations in the complaint, Isaacson failed to respond to the OLR and then later submitted 3,000 photos and 4,000 pages of newspaper clippings and documents, all of which were irrelevant, according to the complaint.

Isaacson did not participate in the disciplinary proceedings. The OLR tried to reach Isaacson by mail and email but got no response. Attempts to mail and serve the complaint were also unsuccessful.

The Supreme Court decided to suspend Isaacson’s license for one year, in agreement with court-appointed referee in the disciplinary proceedings. The court noted that the decision was in line with a similar case, In re Disciplinary Proceedings Against Nett, in which a lawyer who acted similarly to Isaacson was given a one-year suspension of her Wisconsin law license. Rebekah Nett was involved in the same cases as Isaacson.

The court also ordered Isaacson to pay $6,634.96, the cost of the disciplinary proceeding as of Dec. 23.

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