She Built a Law Firm Using Her Brother's Name: The Judith Sharp Case
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She Built a Law Firm Using Her Brother's Name: The Judith Sharp Case
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A woman ran a functioning arbitration firm for nearly ten years using her twin brother’s Tennessee bar certificate she kept from their mother's papers, and not one of her arbitration awards was overturned on appeal. How did a paralegal with no law degree issue seventy- to eighty-page awards that withstood judicial scrutiny while hiding a laminated credential bearing Marcus Doyle Sharp’s name?
In this episode, we lay out the documented timeline and actions in the case as shown in the record, from the river discovery of the wallet to the decade of arbitration awards and the moments when the scheme nearly unraveled. What drove Judith Sharp to adopt her brother’s bar identity, and why did her legal reasoning survive review despite the fraud?
Person: Judith Sharp
Person: Marcus Doyle Sharp
Date: August 14, 2011
Location: Sycamore Fork / Demonbreun Street, Nashville
Status: Awards not vacated on appeal for ten years
- A dark brown leather wallet containing a laminated Tennessee Bar certificate for Marcus Doyle Sharp was found after five days in Sycamore Fork on August 14, 2011.
- Judith Sharp opened Doyle Sharp Dispute Resolution in autumn 2001 and operated from a leased office on Demonbreun Street in Nashville for nearly ten years.
- The Tennessee Bar certificate listed Marcus Doyle Sharp with bar number 0041872, admitted in 1983; his license lapsed in 1994 and he lived in Spokane, Washington.
- Judith billed $240 an hour, a rate described in the record as deliberately set below market to attract referrals while suggesting establishment.
- In 2007 a paralegal ran Marcus Sharp’s bar number in the Tennessee Bar lookup, found him inactive since 1994 with a Spokane address, and left a “check this?” note that was filed without stopping the arbitration outcome.
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