An attorney's website is often a prospective client's first and most important impression of the lawyer they are considering hiring. For this reason, attorney advertising rules impose strict requirements on the accuracy and truthfulness of website representations. Yet attorney website fraud is disturbingly common: fake office locations designed to suggest a larger practice, inflated experience claims, misleading descriptions of credentials, photographs of attorneys who may not look as depicted, and endorsements or ratings that do not mean what the website implies. The Ethics Reporter investigates attorney websites that appear to cross the line from aggressive marketing into actionable misrepresentation, helping prospective clients make informed decisions about who they hire.

The Federal Crime That Ended Cheryl Cozza Milano's Law Career: Smurfing, Student Loan Fraud, and a Guilty Plea in Federal Court
The federal crime Cheryl Ann Cozza pleaded guilty to in 1997 is technically known as structuring — but federal law enfor







