• The Trustee is authorized to destroy those client files for which two notification letters have been sent with no response from the file’s owner. Such files may be destroyed 30 days after the second letter is sent.
•  Files that appear to have been closed, with no activity for four or more years, may be destroyed by the Trustee.

Files will be destroyed by a commercial shredding operation. We urge you to contact Sheila Berger at 435 628-1627 if you have received a notification letter from the Trustee and have not made arrangements to pick up your file.

Tim Anderson, as the trustee, has filed motions for continuance in several cases pending in the Fifth and Sixth District courts  in which hearings were scheduled.  We have provided information to the courts in those districts to make them aware of possible scheduling problems arising from the situation.  We are currently investigating information on client trust funds and other client property.

If you are a former Graff client with a current matter which was being handled by the Graff office and you have not heard from us, please contact this office by calling Sheila Berger at 435 986-2101, or by email to sberger@joneswaldo.com.

If you are an attorney who wishes to be included on the panel of volunteers, please email tanderson@joneswaldo.com.

We feel it is important that the public understands that the trustee is handling these matters entirely on a volunteer basis, with no remuneration, and that no cases will be taken on by the trustee or any other attorney in his office.

GUIDELINES FOR PARTICIPATING ATTORNEYS:

• Panel members will take on at least one case pro bono (without payment) within the limitations set out below.

• Panel members will commit to providing twenty hours pro bono services on accepted cases.  The lawyer will review the case and in the event more than twenty hours may be required to bring the case to a conclusion, an agreement with the client will be entered as to how fees will be handled for work beyond the first twenty hours.

• Panel members agree, in any case accepted having time sensitive issues of a jurisdictional nature, to take needed action timely to silence all such issues.

• Panel members must have malpractice insurance in force through his or her own law firm.

• Panel members have the right to review the proposed case and accept or reject the situation, but will at least provide advice and counsel to the client as to how the client might proceed.

• Panel members who accept one or more cases, under the terms set out above, will also be placed on a list of lawyer names that will be distributed at the discretion of the Trustee to former clients of Matt Graff. The lawyer may accept or reject any potential clients contacting the lawyer and the lawyer may charge customary fees to such individuals. 

PANEL MEMBERS