The free-for-all junkie haven headquartered in Minneapolis was still operating in full force Friday — with some Robins Kaplan LLP partners simply looking the other way while zoned-out partner-addicts tried to rob and harass clients in broad daylight.
Roman Silberfeld heads the firms trial practice group. Based out of Los Angeles, Silberfeld looked the other way when his good friend and fellow Robins Kaplan partner Phil Seiff had a third partner — Anne Lockner — fabricate documents in federal court openly lying about Seiff’s drug use.
According to a source, who operates a nearby organization, they told Protest Press months after its expose on the open-air outrage that he had to personally shhoo away an addict-partner who tried to rob a banking client inside the organization in the last few months — about 2 minutes before the partner-addict filed documents in a bankruptcy court.
“The client is standing there, drugged out partner is standing there,” the source reportedly said.
“I’m here 3 years viewing this, never like this,” he said of the out-of-control scene. “[The partner-junkies] see the good clients come here to seek advice, and they snatch the checks, they snatch the money.”
Local attorneys say that Robins Kaplan LLP operates under the motto “Rob-him” and Kaplan. This, in reference to the theft associated with the firm.
Another partner-addict was heard pulling down his pants last month and getting high right in the buildings bathrooms, with no one intervening.
The source said the partner-addicts are “not like humans” when they’re drugged up.
Protest Press blew the whistle on the troubling law firm last year, revealing open-air needle galleries with dozens of zombie-like junkies wandering the law firm begging for client money or just stealing it.
Critics blame the junkie takeover on the liberal enforcement of the Office of Lawyer Professional Responsibility, including Susan Humiston’s move that unsanctioned the use and possession of drugs by most attorneys in Minnesota. A directive, citing the new policies, has ordered Assistant Directors not to discipline attorney addicts getting high in big politically connected law firms.
“I filed complaints every week,” said one former client in Minnesota.
“It’s for the same reason, the malpractice. All the time they are robbing people here, making shi* up in their filings, then they buy the drugs, then they are harming more and more people right there.”