{"id":5051,"date":"2020-05-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2020-05-27T11:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:23:22","slug":"contract-lawyer-suspended-for-overcharging-public-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5051","title":{"rendered":"Contract Lawyer Suspended for Overcharging Public Defender"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d2gg9evh47fn9z.cloudfront.net\/800px_COLOURBOX8287042.jpg\" alt=\"See the source image\" width=\"226\" height=\"226\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawyer,\nJennifer Meyer, has been suspended for the overcharging of a public defender\u2019s\nlegal services and car mileage. The agency was billed for more than 24 hours a\nday on 30 different days. She also copied repayment requests for mileage but\nassigned them to numerous clients 147 times. This report came back after a\nthorough review going back as far as 4 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Jennifer\u2019s defense, she stated her secretary, who often worked alongside her, could have potentially made errors when billing for a letter or document on the day it was mailed out. Before this line of defense, Meyer claimed that she was entitled to payment for the work that she has done, despite the inaccuracy of billing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After\nfurther investigation, Jennifer Meyer took an Alford plea criminal charge of third-degree\ntheft by deception. This means she still considers herself innocent but admits,\nwith evidence, it would likely prove her to be guilty if brought to trial.&nbsp; A division of the Iowa Supreme Court\ngrievance commission only recommended a 60-day suspension, but the Supreme\nCourt of Iowa said that was too low. She is now required to pay $103,000 in\nrestitution and given a probation sentence of 2 years.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facing a\nlawsuit? Contact us at 816-524-4949 or you can visit our website at <a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/www.hoorfarlaw.com\/\">hoorfarlaw.com<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer, Jennifer Meyer, has been suspended for the overcharging of a public defender\u2019s legal services and car mileage. The agency was billed for more than 24 hours a day on 30 different days. She also copied repayment requests for mileage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5051\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[267,554],"class_list":["post-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-attorney","tag-lawsuit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5052,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions\/5052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}