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Editor: Denny Thaxton
Profession: Legal Malpractice Liability

Category: Legal Malpractice News

In Norfolk, Virginia last week, Matthew C. Vroom was indictied on a charge of forging a judge's signature on public documents. These documents that he forged would have dismissed a garnishment proceeding against vroom.

The document in which he was trying to dismiss was holding him for over $70,000. In January of 2005 he lost his brokers license on The New York Stock exchange because of allegations of forgery and misappropriation of one of his clients money.

The garnishment papers arose from a lawsuit filed against Vroom by Noreen Lockney in July 2002. The lawsuit was resolved with a settlement in January 2005, and the terms were sealed. The lawsuit describes Lockney's accusations of legal malpractice by Vroom.

This lawsuit claimed that Lockney had hired Vroom to represent her in a worker's comp claim. In 1995, Lockney sat in a chair that gave out on her in the process. The chair hit her in the head and was causing pains afterwords. Vroom failed to file Lockneys complaint before the statute of limitations expired. Click on this link to find out more about this malpractice case.