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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Feb. 7, 2015

Lawyer draws heavy discipline for secretly filming people in restrooms

Mark Daniel Wenzel should be suspended for two years "for the good of the profession," the State Bar Court review department concluded.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A once-prominent plaintiffs' lawyer should be suspended for two years for secretly filming people using restrooms at Los Angeles-area coffee shops, the State Bar Court has recommended on appeal.


A bar court judge found in 2013 that Mark Daniel Wenzel's activities involved moral turpitude and recommended a one-year suspension. On appeal, the bar court review department concluded the misc...

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