November 21: The Law Society received a report from O’Brien “that (a) Pilzmaker had been expelled, (b) that he had been wrongly billing into the general, not trust, account and (c) that there was more than $300,000 in unpaid fees where Pilzmaker had either not done the work or had not even been retained in the first place.” The society’s investigatior, Stephen Sherriff, began his investigation and subsequently called for a fuller report from the firm.