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A personal injury lawyer at a New York-based firm has been placed on a two-year suspension, effective February 2, for falsely posing as a physician.
Susan Friery took four semesters toward a Ph.D. at SUNY-Buffalo School of Medicine, studying to be a morgue technician. She dropped out in 1985 without a degree. She then began her long career at Kreindler & Kreindler in 1986 as a part-time legal assistant and medical consultant, on the premise that she had graduated from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She eventually went on to New York Law School with 75% of her tuition paid for by the New York firm. Upon graduating in 1993, she moved to Boston, passed the Massachusetts bar exam, and began work as an associate for the firm's Boston branch. In December of 2009, she was made partner.
All the while, her name had appeared accompanied with "Dr." and "M.D." Her clients, colleagues, and opposing attorneys were all fooled by the same story for years.
Friery left Kreindler & Kreindler in January last year and spilled the beans to her coworkers in August. On January 3 this year, the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County in Massachusetts ordered her suspension. It was made clear that her misrepresentations had not negatively affected her work or her clients, and would not have affected the cases she worked on. However, it remains unclear why she left the firm in the first place.
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