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Lawyers in This State Are Allowed to Ghost Clients for Years. Why Don’t More Judges Stop Them?
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a security story. ProPublica is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 9 Nov 2026, 10:00 UTC. The headline in use is “Lawyers in This State Are Allowed to Ghost Clients for Years. Why Don’t More Judges Stop Them?”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
One morning in July 2025, I was the lone spectator in Judge Frank Palumbo’s courtroom in Philadelphia, watching prosecutors and public defenders haggle over the fates of defendants. Palumbo paused the proceedings to talk to a lawyer he’d appointed to help a prisoner who had ineptly challenged his conviction.
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- First reported by ProPublica
Lawyers in This State Are Allowed to Ghost Clients for Years. Why Don’t More Judges Stop Them?
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- ProPublica