Are Resume Lies Grounds for Disbarment? Michigan Says Yes - Articles

All Content


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jan 24, 2017
A Michigan state attorney disciplinary board said that a lawyer should be disbarred for alleged lies on his resume, according to the ABA Journal. Ali Zaidi made misrepresentations in his resume and online, including inventing fictional summer associate positions, falsely claiming he was admitted to practice in states that he wasn’t, and even claiming that he was on the U.S. field hockey team in the 1996 Olympics.