The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended the law license of Naomi Isaacson, CEO of the Samanta Roy Institute of Science and Technology, for one year.
Isaacson was also ordered last week to pay $6,634 in court costs.
The court agreed with the recommendation of the Office of Lawyer Regulation, citing Isaacson’s professional misconduct and a pattern of bad faith litigation, including making false and harassing statements toward judges and others involved in litigation.
Isaacson also failed to cooperate with an OLR investigation into the matter.
“She engaged in a pattern of intentional misconduct in multiple tribunals over a period of at least 17 months,” the court wrote. “Continuing the offensive conduct after being sanctioned by the courts shows a lack of remorse.”
Isaacson was not acting as an attorney in the cases at issue in the complaint, but she prepared and signed affidavits, declarations and responses as a representative of SIST that were filed on her behalf, according to the court.
“The core of the complaint is that Attorney Isaacson’s statements in these documents had no apparent purpose other than to harass judicial officers, public officials, opposing counsel, and others based on race, creed and religion,” the court wrote.
The attorney in those cases was Rebekah Nett, whose license to practice law in Wisconsin was suspended in August for one year for similar statements.
During a 2010 bankruptcy proceeding for SIST subsidiary Midwest Properties, Isaacson drafted and signed a sworn affidavit claiming that Shawano Mayor Lorna Marquardt “has wrapped her tentacles around the judiciary system including Shawano Municipal judges, Shawano County judges, Wisconsin Appellate Court judges, the Federal District Court judge in Green Bay, Seventh Circuit Appellate Court judges,” and even the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge in Delaware.
The bankruptcy court called the allegations “so fantastic and delusional that no reasonable attorney would certify that they have evidentiary support.”
In her declaration, Isaacson called Shawano “Neo-Nazi territory” and referred to the “underlying White Supremacist feelings and beliefs and Jim Crow mentality held by many persons in Shawano.”
Some of her affidavits also attacked federal court officials, calling them “a bunch of ignoramus, bigoted Catholic beasts that carry the sword of the church.”
Isaacson’s license was previously suspended in May 2011 for noncooperation with the OLR’s investigation. She was also suspended for nonpayment of Wisconsin State Bar dues and failure to provide trust account certification, effective October 2012, and for failure to comply with mandatory continuing legal education requirements, effective June 2014.
In March of last year, the OLR filed a complaint against Isaacson alleging the four counts of professional misconduct that led to this latest suspension.
Isaacson never responded and the OLR filed for a default judgment in August.
“The record reflects that, despite multiple and extensive efforts to provide Attorney Isaacson with notice of the default hearing, all efforts to contact Attorney Isaacson were unsuccessful,” the Supreme Court noted.
The court issued its ruling Friday.
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