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Lying Sacks of Marbles: Balch Calls False Advice, Lying to Client a “Legal Service”
What sound, reputable client would ever hire embattled law firm Balch & Bingham after this despicable admission? Balch has stunned the legal community today in a report from Legal Schnauzer, the well-read legal blog. David Roberson, the ex-Drummond Company executive, is suing Balch and Drummond for $75 million. Balch, which once stated in court proceeding that Balch “owed no duty” to Roberson, appears to have stepped onto another landmine, affirming that the firm “basically gave [Roberson] bad advice.” Quoting from the transcript of court proceedings, Legal Schnauzer published these stunning words by Balch’s defense attorney: In November of 2014 before…
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Newsome Returns on Cane; Is Balch’s Vow Coming True?
The recovery of Burt Newsome has been truly amazing. Last week, he set aside a walker and is finally using a cane. His shattered leg and other injuries are healing well. Last week, Newsome even appeared in person at the Jefferson County Courthouse, and on Saturday, he went to his son’s soccer match. Every single parent at the soccer match knew what happened to Newsome: he was nearly killed in what many believe could have been an attempt to silence him for good. The word is out, penetrating all four corners of Alabama and beyond, and the biggest loser appears…
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Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
Pitiful: Desecrating a Memorial for the Dead in North Birmingham
Beyond the institutional racism that allegedly drove Balch & Bingham paid goons and stooges to target poor African-American families in North Birmingham, the mere mention about the continued toxicity and pollution in the community brings absolute, knee-jerk denials from powerful entities inside and outside the community. Screaming “government overreach” or hollering “we are complying with state regulations” does not work when people are dying and getting sick in a known contaminated area. On Saturday, October 3, environmental groups GASP and PANIC set up a small memorial to remember North Birmingham residents in Harriman Park, Fairmont, and Collegeville who have died…
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Former Georgia Attorney General Dumps Balch; Exodus of the Good Begins
Former Georgia Attorney General Mike Bowers has quit embattled law firm Balch & Bingham. Law.com is reporting he has jumped to Johnson Marlowe. Two years ago, we wrote about the Dean of Balch’s Atlanta office, writing: We know about some of the great and honorable partners at Balch & Bingham who truly have been hurt by the alleged unsavory, racist, and criminal conduct by a few bad apples at the firm. In Atlanta, a controversy has exploded over the high legal fees paid to a law firm to investigate a first-class junket to South Africa. And who offered the most ethical, most honorable, most insightful…
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Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, Secret Star Chamber, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
Kings at Balch Lose Prestige Over Newsome Conspiracy Case
[This post originally appeared two years ago on September 26, 2018. With a recently orchestrated campaign that has backfired horrendously, the dumb-as-rocks terrorization of the wrong family, and the brain amputation of a once-respected journalist, Balch & Bingham defenders, boosters, and buffoons appear to have cost the firm more than prestige. With Burt Newsome almost killed and criminal acts on the rise, let us not be surprised when these same defenders, boosters, and buffoons sit around at a conference table wondering aloud, filled with rage, “Where have all of Balch’s clients and partners gone?”] We are still in disbelief that…
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Recovery, Ridicule, and RICO
Burt Newsome has been discharged from the hospital and is making a steady recovery. The Iron Man has even gone to his office, defying those who may have hoped he was permanently silenced or crippled. Leading activists, business leaders, lawyers, and judicial branch employees in Alabama are stunned and in disbelief that Burt Newsome was almost killed. Newsome has received a flurry of support and “get well” messages from colleagues and lawyers, but not a peep, not a squeak from Balch or their henchmen. Was Newsome a victim once again? Many think so. The never-ending, fight-to-the-death Balch & Bingham story…
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Drummond, Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, RICO, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
Norfolk Southern, Balch, and the Head-On Crash Into Burt Newsome
The accident report of the mysterious car wreck that almost took the life of Iron Man Burt Newsome appears to confirm that the driver of an SUV, who made a left turn in front of Newsome instead of yielding to oncoming traffic, apparently made an abrupt right turn shortly thereafter, hitting Newsome head-on. The photo above appears to confirm the fact, raising the question: Was Iron Man Newsome an alleged victim of a possible crime? In Alabama, they say there are no such things as coincidences. In 2018, we uncovered that the police officer who participated in the alleged staged…
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Drummond, Newsome Conspiracy Case, North Birmingham Bribery Case, Southern Company, Spotlight on Balch & Bingham
From Hospital Bed, Iron Man Newsome Vows “Pursuit of Justice”
Eight years ago, Burt Newsome, an innocent lawyer minding his own business who had no issues with Balch & Bingham, was allegedly targeted, falsely arrested and defamed by the once-prestigious, silk-stocking law firm in an alleged attempt to steal his business servicing banks. His unwavering tenacity to pursue justice against the odds, against the bullies at Balch has made him a hero in the legal community who have had enough of the consistent abuse of the judicial and political system by Balch stooges. On Thursday, Newsome was almost killed in a mysterious car accident, sending the gravely injured attorney to…
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Breaking News: Newsome Gravely Injured; FBI Probe Demanded
Burt Newsome, one of the leading banking lawyers in Alabama who has successfully challenged and humiliated Balch & Bingham after he allegedly was targeted, falsely arrested, and defamed by a conspiracy allegedly spearheaded by a Balch & Bingham partner, was gravely injured in a mysterious auto accident Thursday afternoon. The incident comes hours after Legal Schnauzer published an article linking Balch to a Wallace-era highway scandal that involved the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Robert Shelton. The late Schuyler A. Baker, Sr. was at one time a top attorney at Balch & Bingham, and also a staunch segregationist…
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Stupidly Fighting to the Death for Balch & Bingham
Why would a silk-stocking law firm like Balch & Bingham defend this alleged conspiracy to the death instead of settling the matter? [This post was originally published on October 4, 2018. With the loss of millions in legal fees, the exodus of money-making partners, the termination by 18 of 18 major lobbying clients in Washington, D.C., and Balch’s reputation in shambles, this post is almost prophetic and most relevant today.] When we first read the Newsome Conspiracy Case court documents in late 2016, we thought Schuyler Allen Baker, Jr. a/k/a Notorious SAB was a young, junior attorney because of some…
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Balch Stooge Jay E. Town Flees as Probe Continues
Disgraced Ex-U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town resigned his office effective at midnight on July 15, 2020. Fleeing the corrupt cesspool in the middle of the night, Town’s statement of “wanting to spend more time with his family” is a stock-and-trade, bullshit excuse when political appointees are abruptly shown the door. Town was an ambitious political animal who spent decades building his image only to see his future crumble when photos were published of him chugging cocktails with former Balch & Bingham partner and Alabama Power CEO Mark A. Crosswhite at the Moon Shine Lounge. And what truly forced him to…
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Saving Baby Natalia
While Balch & Bingham apologists were busy terrorizing the wrong family and amputating their brains, we were busy helping the sick and dying. In June, Baby Natalia was in need of a liver transplant but her boosters had only raised less than $25,000 of an $80,000 goal when COVID-19 caused fundraising efforts to collapse. We, the CDLU, vowed to help. We spoke directly with the CEO of the hospital and told her that the child had less than two months to live if the transplant did not proceed. We noted that everything was lined up including the donor and the…
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Balch & Bingham’s Humiliation
Who would want Balch & Bingham to represent them if Balch cannot bring legal matters to a close for the firm itself after 8 long years? So seriously, Balch & Bingham’s brilliant defenders thought the best tactic would be to try to smear an organization that has spurred multiple Civil Rights, state and local investigations, and three U.S. Congressional hearings by allegedly buying some fake protesters, a couple of yellow journalists, and a controversial “burn down Hoover” rabble-rouser? Balch’s humiliation has spurred hearty chuckles and gossipy whispers from coast to coast. From prestigious mega law firms to small two-partner firms,…
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Going Bonkers! Balch Clowns Continue Publicity Campaign of CDLU
Bill Britt, the Executive Editor of Alabama Political Reporter, has provided yet another Thursday publicity piece on us, the CDLU, and has demonstrated unequivocally that the orchestrated campaign to defend Balch & Bingham as a victim is not resonating. Is Balch and Bingham’s leadership truly going bonkers? People who did not know who we were or this website now do. Britt, who pathetically writes about a public tax filing from 17 years ago, tries to smear our association with Civil Rights champion J. Patrick Rooney. Rooney has been dead for 12 years, for heaven’s sake! Showing he is not a…
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Town’s Downfall Part 3: The Newsome Conspiracy Case
Town’s true downfall was allegedly blocking the investigations of the Newsome Conspiracy Case at least four times. In a follow-up letter to the U.S. Department of Justice to supplement our original request of a probe of U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, we summarized the ugly truth: In our almost two decades of advocacy work, we have never, ever seen such an extreme miscarriage of justice as we have seen done against Burt Newsome, a father of four children, who allegedly was wrongly targeted, falsely arrested, and defamed by Balch & Bingham. Jay E. Town should have let the FBI probe…
