PA State Bar Issues Administrative Suspension for Neil Glazer

The PA State Bar has suspended the law license of Neil L. Glazer, an attorney with Kohn Swift.

It is an administrative suspension.

Neil Glazer, the attorney who worked closely with the EDNY in the NXIVM case and later launched a lawsuit with some 70 plaintiffs against NXIVM key leaders, is under fire by one of his clients in the OneTaste case.

According to https://www.padisciplinaryboard.org/for-the-public/find-attorney/attorney-detail/207268 .

An Administrative Suspension: 

Status of an attorney who is a member of the Pennsylvania bar and who has failed to pay the annual fee, failed to satisfy continuing legal education requirements, or failed to pay expenses taxed in a disciplinary proceeding. Such attorneys are notified in advance of suspension with adequate time to come into compliance. An attorney whose status is Administrative Suspension is prohibited from practicing law in Pennsylvania.

It appears Glazer chose not to pay his annual fee or satisfy his continuing education requirements.

The PA disciplinary board reports that there are no pending actions against him and no history of disciplinary actions.

According to the website GreatTransition.org, Glazer has taken an “extended leave” from the practice of law,  “to focus on public policy work.  His primary interest is developing policy tools for the transition to an ecologically sustainable economic system.”

Glazer is best known to Frank Report readers as the lawyer representing former members of NXIVM during the investigation and criminal prosecution of NXIVM founders Keith Raniere and Nancy Salzman, and NXIVM leaders Clare Bronfman, Lauren Salzman, Allison Mack and Kathy Russell.

After the conviction of all six, Glazer represented some 70 former NXIVM students and employees in a civil suit targeting Clare and Sara Bronfman, wealthy heiresses and financiers of NXIVM founder Keith Raniere.

Glazer earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

Neil Glazer

After serving as a law clerk for Judge Dennis G. Jacobs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, he practiced at law firms in New York City. In 2000, Glazer returned to his hometown of Philadelphia and joined the law firm Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C. There, he represented plaintiffs in cases involving human rights, human trafficking, international terrorism, terrorist financing, toxic torts, and fraud.

Glazer initiated a class action lawsuit involving 70 former NXIVM students and employees against Clare and Sara Bronfman, Raniere, and others.

Glazer also filed a lawsuit on behalf of four former OneTaste students, whose claims were revealed in the Frank Report to be questionable and misleading.

Alisha Price, a former employee of OneTaste, filed a lawsuit against Glazer. She alleged that he and FBI Special Agent Elliot McGinnis conspired to pressure her into making a false claim that she was a victim. According to Price, Agent McGinnis threatened her with arrest if she did not testify, while Glazer offered her the chance to seek civil damages if OneTaste co-founder Nicole Daedone was convicted.

Glazer was the lead attorney in a lawsuit involving three former Scientology members who allege the group coerced them into forced labor and forced them to sign a contract to serve Scientology for two billion years.

The NXIVM lawsuit has drawn significant criticism from U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee for the format of the complaint, which he deemed excessively lengthy and characterized by “shotgun” style pleadings. Komitee has recently dismissed several causes of action.

I wouldn’t call him a dummy, but let’s be honest: his role on the bench in Brooklyn Federal Court is more about leveraging his position than delivering justice. It’s all just part of the monetization game for him.

Judge Eric Komitee

Kohn Swift continues to be listed as the attorney of record, but Glazer is no longer part of the Kohn Swift legal team, as evidenced by his absence from the website.