Panel: Lawyer can’t collect from ex-judge’s estate

Published October 17, 2007 4:00am ET



A District of Columbia lawyer has been barred from taking legal fees from a former D.C. judge’s estate as he defends himself against a lawsuit brought by the judge’s children.

Robert Alvord claimed that he had a right to dip into the former estate of Gerard Reilly after Reilly’s grown children, John and Margaret Reilly Heffern, sued him as executor of the estate.

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