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Moonlighting Law Clerk Loses Day Job

By Robert J. Ambrogi

In a post here in November, Appeals Court Lawyer 'Traffics' in Term Papers, we told you about Damian R. Bonazzoli, a senior staff attorney for the Massachusetts Appeals Court who advertised himself on Craigslist as available to write term papers for a fee, even though it is against Massachusetts law to sell a term paper. Now, the moonlighting law clerk has lost his day job. Bonazzoli's extracurricular activities came to light in an article on term paper trafficking written by Colman M. Herman and published in the fall issue of CommonWealth magazine. Posing as a college student, Herman wrote to Craigslist advertisers seeking to buy a paper on physician-assisted suicide. Bonazzoli was one who responded, asking $300 and including his resume, which showed him to work for the Appeals Court. In a subsequent e-mail exchange with Herman, Bonazzoli said he was aware of no law that would make it illegal to sell a term paper. Last week, The Docket, the blog of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, reported that Bonazzoli no longer works at the court. No one is saying whether he left on his own or was terminated. Joan Kenney, a spokeswoman for the court system, issued a statement saying, "As...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on January 26, 2010 (boomark / email).