Michael T. Pines made headlines by advising clients to break into their foreclosed homes. Then, after the San Diego-area attorney was arrested last February for trespassing, the State Bar of California placed his license on inactive status.

Personal injury attorney Michael Pines of the Law Offices of Michael Pines doesn’t have the middle initial “T” in his name. And he’s in San Diego, not Encinitas, Calif., where Michael T. Pines had been operating as Pines & Associates.