1/ He may want to look in to the licenses issued to Attorneys in that state, to determine legitimacy.
For Example:
Bar Numbers assigned to each licensed attorney are done so in sequential order, low to high, based on the date the license was secured.
For example:
An attorney licensed in 1970 may have a BAR # of 1500, whereas an attorney licensed in 1990 would have a higher number to account for all the licenses issued since 1970.
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2/ Source: Wa St Bar Assoc, where several attorneys with the same name appeared within months, with nonsensical BAR Assoc numbers (Mattson) not matching the sequence.
Attorney Matthew Taylor is another - He and his client pressed for “Mental Evaluations” against a woman after she received two “gifts” from her then-spouse:
A book containing poems about fantasies with hookers, and a sleeve of bullets.
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