Ethics
Texas attorney will pay fees for illegally soliciting Hawaii wildfire victims
Eric Dick, a Texas lawyer, recently pleaded no contest to charges of unauthorized practice of law in Hawaii, where he solicited wildfire victims. (Screenshot from YouTube)
A Texas attorney found to have illegally solicited victims of the 2023 Maui wildfires was sentenced to pay court fees, according to a report by Hawaii News Now.
Houston attorney Eric Dick, who is not liscensed to practice in Hawaii, was charged with four counts of unauthorized practice of law and attempted unauthorized practice for sending flyers to 27,000 addresses in Maui, the site reports.
The flyers included a contract and instructions to sign and return via text message, along with the message, “You may be entitled to money.”
Last week, Dick pled no contest to all four counts, according to Hawaii News Now.
The court required Dick to pay $220 to the Crime Victims Compensation fund. He will avoid jail time and not have any criminal conviction on his record, the article says.
“We firmly believe that the charges were not only frivolous but symptomatic of a deeply corrupt environment,” Dick said in a statement to the ABA Journal. “Our decision to enter into a deal was purely an economic choice to expedite the dismissal of these groundless claims.”
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