Joel Stanley Freeman is an active member of the California Bar and was admitted 26th September 1995. Joel graduated from San Fernando Valley College of Law.

Lawyer Information

NameJoel Stanley Freeman
First Admitted26 September 1995 (28 years, 6 months ago)
StatusActive
Bar Number177703

Contact

Current Email[email protected]
Previous Email[email protected]
Phone Number323-702-7408
Fax Number866-340-9618

School

Law SchoolSan Fernando Valley College of Law (Woodland Hills CA)

Address

Current Address320 Encino Dr
Oak View, CA 93022-9529
Map

History

11 May 2004Active (19 years, 10 months ago)
11 February 2004Not eligible to practice law in CA (20 years, 1 month ago)
Discipline w/actual suspension 00-O-11501
3 November 2003Active (20 years, 5 months ago)
16 September 2003Not eligible to practice law in CA (20 years, 6 months ago)
Suspended, failed to pay fees
25 October 2002Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 00-O-11501 (21 years, 5 months ago)
9 August 2002Active (21 years, 7 months ago)
1 September 2001Not eligible to practice law in CA (22 years, 7 months ago)
Suspended, failed to pay fees
1 September 2001Not eligible to practice law in CA (22 years, 7 months ago)
Admin Inactive/MCLE noncompliance
26 September 1995Admitted to the State Bar of California (28 years, 6 months ago)

Discipline Summaries

February 11, 2004

JOEL STANLEY FREEMAN [#177703], 44, of Los Angeles was suspended for one year, stayed, placed on two years of probation with an actual 90-day suspension and was ordered to take the MPRE within one year and comply with rule 955. The order took effect Feb. 11, 2004.

Freeman stipulated to three counts of misconduct.

He repeatedly wrote checks or made overdraft ATM withdrawals against insufficient funds, paid his personal expenses from his client trust account, often against insufficient funds, and deposited personal funds into the account.

He stipulated that he commingled personal and client funds, misused his client trust account and did not update his membership address with the State Bar.

In mitigation, Freeman has no record of discipline and no clients complained about him to the bar. When he had been a lawyer for just two years, he attempted to take over his father’s practice but when he realized he did not have the business knowledge to run a practice, he began winding down. He did not practice for two and a half years.