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The 18 counts filed Thursday follow an initial filing of disciplinary charges in August and provide more examples of how the bar contends that Spolin and his Westside firm used deceptive marketing and outright lies to convince desperate families to hire him.

In another instance cited by the bar, an attorney working for Spolin told a Los Angeles man, Wesner Charles Jr., who was serving a sentence of 27 years to life for attempted carjacking and robbery, that a reform law could “get him out” in six to eight months.

County district attorney’s office had written “no fewer than nine letters” to Spolin advising him that such cases “would not be acted upon,” wrote Cindy Chan, a supervising attorney in the bar’s Office of Chief Trial Counsel.

She wrote that “for well over a year,” Spolin “has refused paid representation” for the type of resentencing cases the bar has faulted him for and that “he has also modified or removed his firm’s advertising statements …”

It’s the kind of pretentiousness and white privilege that mirrors Kim Kardashian’s pursuit of practicing law simply by passing the bar exam.