Attorney Art Webster Disbarred Monday

Local Attorney, Art Webster was disbarred by the Court of Appeals this past Monday. Chris Llinus was also disbarred a little more than a year ago. They aren't the first, and they won't be the last.

I guess the real question is, why they cross the line in the first place? You would think having spent most of their careers seeing the results of poor choices made by their clients would be enough to keep them on the straight and narrow. Nope! I guess when you spend the majority of your day being paid to lie and win, you just might start believing your invincible.

While I know of plenty of wonderful, giving, honest attorneys that strive to make a difference in their own small segment of the world, I also know their alter egos. They will lie and cheat their clients out of money and still manage to sleep soundly at night. Not returning their clients phone calls, making up bills depending on which way the wind happens to be blowing that day, spending about 5 minutes on a case just prior to walking into the courtroom, and getting involved with your clients makes you one of the bad guys. Those attorneys, and they know who they are, are the reason so many of the rest of the population hate all attorneys.

So do yourself a big favor. Instead of covering up for those bad apples in your field of work. How about putting pressure on them to clean up their acts? You would think that Associations like the Barr Association would rather weed out the bad apples to improve their overall reputations rather then allowing things to come to a boil before doing anything. I know Art isn't the only local attorney that could use a reprimand.