Lawyer disbarred for abandoning clients to ‘play jazz’

A New Jersey lawyer has been disbarred for dropping work on two bankruptcy cases, vanishing from New Jersey and keeping retainers of $1,500 and $1,410.

One of the clients learned that lawyer James Peter Byrne had moved through the lawyer’s Facebook page, according to a report by the New Jersey Supreme Court Disciplinary Review Board.

Byrne wrote that he was closing his law office and moving to Washington state to “play jazz.”

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