How a former McKinsey consultant "built a booming enterprise by fanning false hopes in some families" that he could help get their loved ones out of prison
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With a filing in State Bar Court on Tuesday, Aaron [he] pleaded no contest to misconduct involving eight clients, all current or former California prisoners, and consented to the stripping of his law license.
The stipulation signed by [him], his lawyer and a bar prosecutor stated that [he] “promoted false hopes in his clients and their families that the clients’ sentences would be reduced when in fact that was highly unlikely.”
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drew on a stint as a McKinsey consultant to launch his high-volume firm in Los Angeles. He recognized a host of new criminal justice reform laws in 2019 could be big business and told The Times in 2023 that he drew on his time at the consulting company “analyzing how different companies could expand to be successful” to embrace new techniques in his law business.
Among his approaches were buying up Google search terms so families looking for information about criminal justice reform were directed to his website, using fill-in-the-blank templates for legal documents and outsourcing work to lawyers in developing countries who were paid about $10 an hour.