Subject: libel and slander
From: JZimmer844@aol.com
To: clr@clr.org
My Name is James J. Zimmer, attorney at law in good standing in the state of michigan. I am a member of a state bar committee and am a well respected member of my community and the state bar of michigan. I demand that my name be removed from your website. If is is not I will file suit.
JAMES J. ZIMMER
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Attorney Zimmer, please explain why the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board lists you as having been placed on probation for two years on November 10, 1990, disciplinary case no. P-22732.
Your above email, plus the additional emails you have sent us, will be forwarded to the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board for further disciplinary action.
Are you really "a well respected member of my community and the state bar of michigan"?
Is it a practice of a Michigan attorney in good standing to make false statements?
Mr. Zimmer, please provide us full and complete
copies of all complaints made
against you with the State of Michigan attorney disciplinary
entity, and with any other state attorney disciplinary entity, and any
charges made by any client against you, whether oral or written.
Please provide us also with full and complete copies of all lawsuits filed no matter where located and no matter how disposed, wherein you were or are a defendant.
Please also provide us with a full and complete list of the names, last known addresses and phone numbers of all of your clients, both past and present. As you know, lists of clients have been held by the courts to be business records, and therefore are not within the client-attorney privilege exemption from disclosure.
Please provide the above along with your affidavit that your submissions are accurate, full and complete. Upon receipt of the above, our Review Board will review your documentations and investigate your allegations to determine whether or not you have brought disrepute to the legal business. If our Review Board finds that you have not brought disrepute to the legal business, then your name will be removed from our web-site.
Mr. Zimmer alleges in his communication that he
is an "attorney at law in good standing in the state of michigan", and
that he is "a member of a state bar committee and am a well respected member
of my community and the state bar of michigan."
but has not provided any evidence of these allegations.
CLR will request that the Review Board also investigate if all of his current
and former clients have the same opinion of Mr. Zimmer that he has
of himself.
Mr. Zimmer, is not the sending of your type of
communication to us via the Internet
a violation of State and Federal laws?
Mr. Zimmer, do you honestly believe that a jury, after reviewing all of the evidence, will find that in the opinion of the public, that you have not brought disrepute to the legal business?
email: clr@clr.org
Last updated August 9, 2002