Sheriff's Raid Can't Pry Client Files From Disbarred Lawyer's Grip

Sheriff's deputies last week raided the office of disbarred New York attorney Kenneth Heller, but came up largely empty in their search for 43 boxes of files from his biggest case, a $7.6 million wrongful-death verdict later reversed on appeal. The plaintiff's new lawyers have tried for 2 1/2 years to recover the files from Heller, who has demanded as much as $12 million in fees before turning them over. Heller was disbarred in 2004 for a pattern of improprieties predating the wrongful-death case.

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