This is the property of the Daily Journal Corporation and fully protected by copyright. It is made available only to Daily Journal subscribers for personal or collaborative purposes and may not be distributed, reproduced, modified, stored or transferred without written permission. Please click "Reprint" to order presentation-ready copies to distribute to clients or use in commercial marketing materials or for permission to post on a website. and copyright (showing year of publication) at the bottom.
Subscribe to the Daily Journal for access to Daily Appellate Reports, Verdicts, Judicial Profiles and more...

Law Practice

Dec. 15, 2010

Investigation Details Extravagant Spending

Court documents recently made public suggest prominent life sciences attorney Jonathan Dickstein and his wife went to great lengths to hide their involvement in a sham business that allegedly bilked the San Francisco Unified School District


By Amy Yarbrough


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - Bogus checks. Credit card debt totaling $122,000. More than $20,000 in housekeeping costs for cleaning a 2,050-square-foot Victorian home.


Those are just some of the pieces an investigator says he put together in building a felony case against a former Morrison & Foerster partner and his wife.


Prominent life sciences attorney Jonathan Dickstein and his wife, Barclay Lyn...

To continue reading, please subscribe.
For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
Receive unlimited article access and full access to our archives,
Daily Appellate Report, award winning columns, and our
Verdicts and Settlements.
Or
$795 for an entire year!

Or access this article for $45
(Purchase provides 7-day access to this article. Printing, posting or downloading is not allowed.)

Already a subscriber?

Enewsletter Sign-up