A judge this week suspended a Denver attorney from practicing law in Colorado’s federal bankruptcy court after finding he lied, submitted false legal documents and engaged in a pattern of “fraudulent schemes” to try to get a case dismissed.
for the District of Colorado for three years. The attorney violated his professional duties and committed “egregious lawyer misconduct,” bankruptcy Judge Thomas McNamara wrote in a scathing 46-page order issued Tuesday.
“From start to finish, Mr. Barclay’s representation of the debtors was incompetent,” McNamara wrote. “Even worse, he engaged in intentional bad-faith misconduct. … Rather than provide competent legal advice, Mr. Barclay engaged in a bizarre gamesmanship in the bankruptcy process.” “It’s a shame I ran out of the resources to defend a lot of the allegations,” he said, adding that he had “never willingly tried to lie or mislead the court.”“It’s driven more by a desire to shut me up,” he said of the suspension. “… That’s really why the pleadings are as intense and wordy as they are.”
The judge’s suspension order says that in the 2021 case, Barclay forged signatures, tried to manipulate the bankruptcy fee filing system, filed motions based on false assertions of fact and suggested his clients try to infect a rival attorney with COVID-19.
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