First Web Site Dedicating to Recording and Exposing Abuses by Attorneys

27 July 2005

The National Registry of Attorney Crimes and Abuses (NARACA.ORG) is a non-profit, apolitical organization established to record the crimes and other abuses by attorneys. The information on the crime or abuse by an attorney, and the circumstances related to the incidents, is made freely available.

The National Registry of Attorney Crimes and Abuses (NARACA) is a non-profit, non-affiliated, apolitical organization created for the purpose of maintaining a national public registry of attorney crimes and abuses. NARACA is the national clearinghouse for such information.

The charter and support for NARACA comes from the following law:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The charter is also based on the profound belief that it is up to each one of us to effect change in a legal and peaceful manner wherever change is needed. Even if one is not affected directly, the abuse to our system will have dire consequences. As a great attorney once wrote:
"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom." --Clarence Darrow

NARACA accepts the registration of any attorney by anyone under the sole condition that what is registered is true to the best of the knowledge of the person making the registration (the "registrant"). Therefore, it is the registrant that is solely responsible for the content of the registration.

NARACA goes through extensive efforts to check that all registrations are devoid of slanderous terms, racist, sexist, culturally offensive remarks. If such a registration is found, it will be deleted immediately. However, we can not guarantee that we will detect all such statements.

WHY NARACA
As anyone who has had the misfortune to cross paths with an attorney that has committed a crime or abuse knows, there are little or no recourses in seeking a redress.

The state bar associations are more inclined to proffer a mountain of obstacles that one has to scale to simply file a complaint. If a complaint is accepted, the bar associations focus on finding a justification for almost any crime or abuse, hence the reason why exceedingly few offending attorneys are ever disciplined. Lastly, each bar association has varying rules for when to make such complaints public - in fact, there are some bar associations that do not make public the crimes and abuses of attorneys.

A more compelling rationale for NARACA's existence is that attorneys committing crimes and abuses, literally get away with the crime or abuse. Petitioning a city attorney or even a state attorney to prosecute an attorney for crimes - especially if the crime was committed during a litigation - is a virtually impossible, demeaning and futile exercise. As you can find from one of the registrations, a city attorney refused to indict an attorney because he works for a "powerful downtown law firm". Even when the rationale is not so pathetic, the governmental agencies that are sworn to uphold the law are disinclined to prosecute attorneys because the attorney's behavior can be justified, and because they are reluctant to prosecute one of their own.

Which leads to another powerful reason for NARACA. As the old saying goes, the insane are running the asylum. Congress, prosecuting governmental agencies, state bar associations, and the courts are replete with, and run by, attorneys. Despite the few honest attorneys, the "system" that the attorneys decry as conducting the necessary oversight is broken.

Another powerful reason for NARACA is to act as a voice. A voice for those that are serving jail time for attorney misdeeds - not just for attorney malpractice. A voice for those that have lost their life's savings due to dishonest litigation that was fueled by dishonest lawyers repeatedly committing dishonest deeds. A voice for the mother or father that lost custody of their children due to attorney abuses. A voice to bring to light a process that has corrupted and destroyed the splendor and beauty and near perfection that was the United States Constitution and the respective judicial system created for the people.