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[pontcanna]

West Shore lawyer suspended for sharing MDMA at a Halloween party

Not the first hearing for Valorie Hemminger Long, whose 2-week suspension starts Aug. 28

Aug. 18, 2021

 

Valorie Hemminger Long

A West Shore lawyer has agreed to a two-week suspension for conduct unbecoming of a lawyer back in 2019 when she shared MDMA with two people at a Halloween party.

Valorie Hemminger Long is the principal lawyer and owner of Pathway Legal Law Corporation in Colwood, and has been a practising lawyer in B.C. since 1996.

 

More: https://www.vicnews...._kHm4HtNDmYUHLU

[Victoria Watcher]

According to facts listed in the consent agreement between Hemminger Long and the Law Society of B.C., she had been using non-prescription drugs between 2010 and 2019, but in late 2020 was diagnosed with a mental illness for which she is now in treatment.



Wtf

[Rob Randall]

There was a local lawyer in the 1970s, defended his client in court on a hash possession charge. He picked up the evidence; examined it closely, and popped it into his mouth and ate it. Suddenly without evidence the case was dismissed.

[max.bravo]

good marketing opportunity for this lawyer. I don’t think many people are put off by this type of misconduct.

Hopefully she can use her 15 minutes to grow her practice. (Or her drug dealing side biz... kidding!)

[Rob Randall]

She's appeared before the board for other issues:

 

Between approximately August 2011 and April 2014, you received trust funds from your clients and failed to deposit the funds in your pooled trust account as soon as practicable in some or all of the sixty-one (61) instances set out in Schedule “A” to this citation, contrary to Rule 3-51 [now Rule 3-58] of the Law Society Rules.

This conduct constitutes professional misconduct or breach of the Act or rules, pursuant to s. 38(4) of the Legal Profession Act.

 

Between approximately May 4, 2015 and May 6, 2015, you misappropriated or improperly withdrew client trust funds by depositing them into your general account, purportedly in payment of fees for services rendered to your clients, when you had not completed all of the services as described and had not delivered a bill,[...],

 

This conduct constitutes professional misconduct or breach of the Act or rules, pursuant to s. 38(4) of the Legal Profession Act.

 

 

 

etc.

 

https://www.lawsocie...-Hemminger-Long

[Victoria Watcher]

sometimes drug addicts are sloppy with accounting.  since they are high.

[Rob Randall]

I disagree. The accounting shortcuts happen in the cold sober light of day when certain bills need to be paid very quickly.

[todd]

Drugs are bad.