A woman from Utah has been arrested and charged with identify theft after she stole a lawyer’s identity and represented a client in court.

Karla Carbo, 29, posed as real lawyer Karla Stirling when she represented a client on a theft matter in a district court in Utah, stealing Stirling’s bar number. But it’s probably not the first time, as police say that Carbo has appeared in several court proceedings, representing herself as a qualified lawyer. It is also alleged that she opened her own practice and hired a man who recently passed the bar to work for her. She was rumbled when the district court contacted Stirling in relation to the theft matter, and Stirling had no idea what they were on about.

The fake and real Stirling. At least they both share the same Christian name.

Stirling, a business lawyer who practices in California, told Deseret News that she’s never done criminal work and “there shouldn’t be any court files with my name or my bar number in Utah whatsoever”. She added, “it’s been shocking to hear that there’s been somebody else whose [sic] doing this with my name and my bar number”.

Carbo is charged with one count of identity theft, two counts of forgery and one count of communications fraud. She is being held at Summit County Jail, with bail set at $25,000. 
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The University of Law has lost its contract with DAC Beachcroft.

DAC has signed up for a year with ULaw's rival BPP instead. Trainees currently studying their GDL and LPC at ULaw will continue their course at the former charity, but future intakes, and anyone else recruited for a 2016 start date, will be sent to BPP.

ULaw's house band, yesterday

         

DAC may have a relatively small intake, of around ten trainees a year, but it marks yet another in a string of firms to abandon ULaw. In 2013 the university lost Allen & Overy to BPP, representing 90 trainees a year. And in September Clifford Chance signed up to a three year contract with the breaded cat, taking hundreds of profitable students equating to millions of pounds with it.

Nobody from the University of Law was available to comment.
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Join the London Legal Support Trust, in association with Arts for Justice, for the 'I N J U S T I C E' Open Charity Art Exhibition.

At La Galleria, 30 Royal Opera Arcade, London SW1Y 4UY

Visit and view the paintings for free from 29th September - 3rd October 2014, 10.00am - 7.00pm.

The exhibition will feature 70 innovative works of art that will make you ponder the definition of 'injustice'.



Tickets are also available for:

Opening Event: Tuesday 30th September, 7pm - 9pm     (£10 full price, £5 concession)

Award Ceremony: Thursday 2nd October 2014, 7pm - 10pm     (£10 full price, £5 concession)

Award for Best Painting: £1,500
Award for Best Sculpture: £1,500
Bloomsbury Professional People's Prize: £500

Invited Artists: Joe Machine, Eleanor Watson, Bartholomew Beal, Pippa Blake

To purchase tickets please contact Natalia@llst.org.uk or visit the LLST website. All proceeds will go to London Legal Support Trust, a registered charity that supports law centres and legal advice agencies in their work to help the most vulnerable in society.

Click here to view the gallery of entries.



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A paralegal who worked at Linklaters for over ten years has today been jailed for 12 months after he admitted fleecing the firm out of £86,000.

Raza Kanval, 36, fraudulently photocopied a number of signed invoices to benefit his friend, Karim Rashid, who was paid twice for the work his company did for Linklaters. Rashid’s business DK Dimensions Ltd was struggling, and at Linklaters’ expense Kanval thought he’d throw him a life line. But it backfired as Rashid blew it on gambling and socialising.

"I knew I should have put it on 17 black"

Kanval was suspended from the magic circle firm in March 2012 and was dismissed later that year. He admitted one charge of fraud at the Old Bailey. A Linklaters spokesman said “we now regard the matter closed and have no further comment to make”.  .... read more >

Legal charity and friends of RoF, the London Legal Support Trust, are giving away an exclusive opportunity to ride the Olympic velodrome with world and Olympic champion, Dani King.

Date: Thursday 11 September
Location: Lee Valley Velodrome
Time: Various slots available between 12.30pm - 6pm

Enjoy:

- an hour of track time with Dani King and training from the Lee Valley coaches;
- an hour of lunch or afternoon tea whilst taking part in a Q&A with Dani;
- a personalised signed photo of you and Dani;
- a chance to purchase framed action shots from the track session and;
- bring along spectators (but an additional cover charge will be made for their food).



You could win (or buy) the opportunity to take part in this amazing event whilst raising funds for two great causes: Legacy 300, who support Team GB athletes and LLST, in their work to raise much needed funds for providing free legal advice to the vulnerable in London and the South East.

You have only one week to secure your place, so please either:

Click here to buy your raffle ticket(s) - 1 raffle ticket (£5) or 5 raffle tickets (£20)

Or

Click here to reserve your place(s) - 1 place (£450) or 5 places (£2,000)

The raffle will end at midnight on Wednesday 3 September and the winner will be announced on Thursday 4 September.

If you are reserving a place there are only 16 places in each session, so if you are keen get in there quickly!

For more info please contact Natalia at LLST natalia@llst.org.uk. 


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