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Former Bryan Cave accomplice disbarred after responsible plea to sexting particular person he thought was 14 years previous
By Debra Cassens Weiss
July 23, 2025, 11:28 am CDT
A former accomplice at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has been disbarred after his sentencing for exchanging sexual messages with an undercover investigator who he thought was a 14-year-old lady. (Picture by Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, by way of Flickr)
A former accomplice at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has been disbarred after his sentencing for exchanging sexual messages with an undercover investigator who he thought was a 14-year-old lady.
The lawyer, Daniel Philip Waxman, had led the tort group of the regulation agency’s New York workplace. The Authorized Occupation Weblog famous the disbarment in a July 17 opinion by the Appellate Division’s First Judicial Division of the New York Supreme Court docket.
Waxman pleaded responsible in April 2024 to tried dissemination of indecent supplies to minors, based on the disbarment opinion and a June 2023 press launch by the Rockland County, New York, district lawyer’s workplace. He was sentenced to probation for 5 years in July 2024 and ordered to pay charges for a DNA databank and intercourse offender registration.
Waxman admitted that he used a messaging app in Could 2023 to speak with the particular person. The disbarment was computerized because of the responsible plea to a felony.
The disbarment is retroactive to the date of Waxman’s conviction in April 2024.
Bryan Cave positioned Waxman on indefinite go away after his Could 2023 arrest. He was taken into custody when he arrived in Rockland County to satisfy with the one who he thought was a 14-year-old lady, based on the June 2023 press launch.
RollOnFriday reported in July 2024 that it “understands that [Waxman] exited the agency, not completely willingly, in February this yr.”
Bryan Cave advised RollOnFriday that it took the allegations critically.
“After we discovered of the allegations, Daniel Waxman was instantly suspended from the agency, by no means labored for the reason that suspension and is not a accomplice or in any other case related to the agency,” Bryan Cave stated in a press release to the publication.
Waxman was admitted to observe in New York in 1993. Telephone numbers listed on-line for Waxman are not working.
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