Lawrence Fisher
Attorney, Illinois
    CLR has received complaints of attorney and former Chief Bankruptcy Judge, Lawrence Fisher, currently acting as a Bankruptcy trustee, removing property from an Bankruptcy estate and taking said estate property to his home. CLR understands this theft of property without a court order was revealed in court. Fisher returned one item of  property to the estate. But where is the rest of the stolen property?

    Under law, CLR suggests that this property is stolen property. And any person who benefits from this stolen property, whether directly or indirectly, is the recipient of stolen property. This includes his spouse, his children, his grandchildren, his siblings, etc.

    Is any property in Lawrence Fisher's house his property or is it all stolen property?

    A person who is in possession of property which has been stolen is not the legal owner of the property. The stolen property must be returned to the legal owner.

    The title to personal property requires a chain of proof as does the title to real property.

    In criminal law the hardest case for a defense attorney to contend with is a case where the client, the defendant, is accused of being "in possession of stolen property". In such a case the only valid defense is proof of ownership of the goods in question. The burden is on the party who may have stolen property in his possession to prove that he has not received any stolen property.

    The following is a list of some of the persons who may have received some of the stolen property unlawfully obtained from clients by Judge Lawrence Fisher:
Jean Fisher
Maury Fisher
Deborah Fisher


    CLR has recently been advised that Judge Lawrence Fisher's son, Maury Fisher, was convicted of stealing from the law firm of D'Ancona & Plaum, where both father Lawrence Fisher and son Maury Fisher were named partners, and from a Bankruptcy client.
    Did son Maury Fisher learn from his father, Lawrence Fisher on how to steal from Bankruptcy clients? Is this a situation of like father, like son? 
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Created December 8, 2001
Updated March 5, 2002