In the latest example of a law firm burned after apparently failing to confirm a worker's credentials, the Legal Profession Blog is reporting that a Massachusetts attorney's law license has been suspended for two years because she falsely held herself out as a physician. Susan Friery, who had taken courses toward a doctorate degree in pathology and worked as a morgue technician, initially began working as a paralegal for Kreindler & Kreindler around 1987. She claimed to have graduated in the top 1 percent of her class at Columbia University's medical school, according to the blog and a law firm press release announcing…
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