The results are in from the investigation in to Phil Kohn at the public defender’s office. It confirmed that “Mr. Kohn engaged in making inappropriate comments of a sexual nature in the workplace and engaged in inappropriate physical behavior toward employees.” No word on what disciplinary action will be taken against him, but completely unrelated to the investigation, Kohn is retiring on January 11. The investigation, which took several months, was conducted by Robert Freeman at Lewis Brisbois. [RJ]
Investigation results are worse than I thought. I was of the view that the report would probably conclude that he tolerated certain behavior of certain deputies, which caused a negative systemic culture of gender-based harassment.
I didn't really expect the investigation to center primarily, if not solely, on his own actions. And, to make matters worse, his actions were apparently not limited to verbal harassment, but he was physical as well.
Ultimately, none of it will matter as he retires in January, and with full pension as a poster points out.
The spokesman said that the retirement date was pre-planned and is unrelated to the controversy.
Perhaps in this case that is true, but that is what is always claimed when a politician or public servant is embroiled in career threatening scandal or controversy. They always claim they were planning to resign anyway(to spend time with their family or some such tripe), and that the scandal has nothing to do with their decision to resign or retire.
In addition to this approach insulting everyone's intelligence, it also demonstrates a clear lack of accountability, insight, or true regret and remorse for the pain they caused others.
Will we ever here someone admit that they are resigning because they are forced to based on their own actions, and that they deserve to lose their positon due to their dreadful actions toward others, which caused enormous pain?
We will never hear anything like that. One reason, obviously, is such blanket admission provides a much more clear trajectory for anyone intending to sue, but that's not the main reason we never hear it.
The main reason we never hear it is because these are not isolated, regrettable lapses in judgements. These are behaviors occurring over years or decades, and these people could not care less about the anguish they caused, and never will.
They only regret that their conduct was detected and that they now must pay the piper.
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August 31, 2018 5:15 pm
Quick story: Many years ago I worked at a large firm and one of the partners had been driving to Phoenix over Labor Day, a drunk hit him and his family head on, killed his two little boys, I always remember him coming to the office a few weeks later and when he walked in he looked like death, eyes sunk in, many more wrinkles, a distant stare, reminded me of the movie Platoon when Charlie Sheen came back from war, it saddens me now to remember it, please don't drink and drive and please if you know someone that does drink help them to get home safely
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August 31, 2018 6:39 pm
Stephen Stubbs got booked into CCDC today for obstructing. 18M19974X.
No, apparently it stems from a DUI blood draw from his client that he allegedly refused to leave the hospital room for. There is no right to have an attorney present during those draws, so he was trying to throw his bar card as an "I can do anything I want" license. This was a predictable result.
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August 31, 2018 7:14 pm
Yesterday while leaving the RJC, I saw a Lexus with vanity plates that read JDGE. Does anybody know if it is in fact a judge? Any other clever vanity plates related to the legal field?
Phil Kohn has a long long history of obsessively hiring beautiful women, then pestering them with unwanted attention. That's why so many people consider him a pervert. Over the years the women have made fun of him, but they rarely complain about his attentions.
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September 1, 2018 3:27 pm
Except for Phil Kohn, the only male attorneys I like in the State are at the PDs office.
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September 1, 2018 9:31 pm
The women Kohn hired also pester him. Works both ways. Nothing came of the investigation. A three week suspension is a slap on the wrist. He was leaving anyway.
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September 1, 2018 11:45 pm
Pester him? Wow, just wow. I have a job for you.
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September 2, 2018 2:09 pm
I doubt Yolanda King (or the report) has it right with the statement that Kohn actually had inappropriate physical contact. Had that happened, people would have heard about it in the office and there's never been, to my knowledge, any such claim. What Kohn does is make really inappropriate insulting comments to people. He does it all the time. He seems to enjoy insulting and demeaning people. With attractive women, he hires them, then showers them with attention and says and asks inappropriate things. Weird guy.
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September 4, 2018 2:48 am
I'm sure Nike won't go broke due to my boycott, but no more Nike, MAGA!
Release the investigation results!
And the guy will get his full retirement.
Investigation results are worse than I thought. I was of the view that the report would probably conclude that he tolerated certain behavior of certain deputies, which caused a negative systemic culture of gender-based harassment.
I didn't really expect the investigation to center primarily, if not solely, on his own actions. And, to make matters worse, his actions were apparently not limited to verbal harassment, but he was physical as well.
Ultimately, none of it will matter as he retires in January, and with full pension as a poster points out.
The spokesman said that the retirement date was pre-planned and is unrelated to the controversy.
Perhaps in this case that is true, but that is what is always claimed when a politician or public servant is embroiled in career threatening scandal or controversy. They always claim they were planning to resign anyway(to spend time with their family or some such tripe), and that the scandal has nothing to do with their decision to resign or retire.
In addition to this approach insulting everyone's intelligence, it also demonstrates a clear lack of accountability, insight, or true regret and remorse for the pain they caused others.
Will we ever here someone admit that they are resigning because they are forced to based on their own actions, and that they deserve to lose their positon due to their dreadful actions toward others, which caused enormous pain?
We will never hear anything like that. One reason, obviously, is such blanket admission provides a much more clear trajectory for anyone intending to sue, but that's not the main reason we never hear it.
The main reason we never hear it is because these are not isolated, regrettable lapses in judgements. These are behaviors occurring over years or decades, and these people could not care less about the anguish they caused, and never will.
They only regret that their conduct was detected and that they now must pay the piper.
Quick story: Many years ago I worked at a large firm and one of the partners had been driving to Phoenix over Labor Day, a drunk hit him and his family head on, killed his two little boys, I always remember him coming to the office a few weeks later and when he walked in he looked like death, eyes sunk in, many more wrinkles, a distant stare, reminded me of the movie Platoon when Charlie Sheen came back from war, it saddens me now to remember it, please don't drink and drive and please if you know someone that does drink help them to get home safely
Stephen Stubbs got booked into CCDC today for obstructing. 18M19974X.
Does this charge stem from the notary stuff from a few years ago?
No, apparently it stems from a DUI blood draw from his client that he allegedly refused to leave the hospital room for. There is no right to have an attorney present during those draws, so he was trying to throw his bar card as an "I can do anything I want" license. This was a predictable result.
Yesterday while leaving the RJC, I saw a Lexus with vanity plates that read JDGE. Does anybody know if it is in fact a judge? Any other clever vanity plates related to the legal field?
Richard Hill up in Reno used to (I don't know if he still does) have a Porsche with the vanity plate "SoSueMe" – great idea, eh?
I've seen ISRLESQ before. Judge Israel, perhaps?
Cadish's license plate should say "Timmy."
Years ago, someone in Oscar Goodman's old building has a license plate frame that read "Reasonable Doubt for a Reasonable Fee"
A former DA has the license plate "guilty", but the problem is he does criminal defense now.
Tim is enough reason enough not to vote for Elissa Cadish. Her plate should say bought.
Reject the premise. Law-related vanity plates are not clever at all. Far from it.
Agreed.
Phil Kohn has a long long history of obsessively hiring beautiful women, then pestering them with unwanted attention. That's why so many people consider him a pervert. Over the years the women have made fun of him, but they rarely complain about his attentions.
Except for Phil Kohn, the only male attorneys I like in the State are at the PDs office.
The women Kohn hired also pester him. Works both ways. Nothing came of the investigation. A three week suspension is a slap on the wrist. He was leaving anyway.
Pester him? Wow, just wow. I have a job for you.
I doubt Yolanda King (or the report) has it right with the statement that Kohn actually had inappropriate physical contact. Had that happened, people would have heard about it in the office and there's never been, to my knowledge, any such claim. What Kohn does is make really inappropriate insulting comments to people. He does it all the time. He seems to enjoy insulting and demeaning people. With attractive women, he hires them, then showers them with attention and says and asks inappropriate things. Weird guy.
I'm sure Nike won't go broke due to my boycott, but no more Nike, MAGA!
It appears the Russian propaganda bots have found the Wild West Law Blog. Away with you.
XOXO, 7:48. Keep America Great.