Ms. Pointer

I just spoke to an Adele Anderson at 615-741-3234. I was referred to her by the TN Bar. I forget the exact name of her office, but she confirmed Mr. Wilhelms does not have a TN license.

I spoke to the NJ office charged with maintaining the eligibility of NJ lawyers at 609-292-8079. The woman said "Frederick Wilhelms" DOES renew his NJ license, but "lives in TN." She also said even were Mr. Wilhelms to return to NJ, he would not be able to practice in the state until he re-established certain residency and trust requirements. She also said NJ had no reciprocity agreement with TN.

Ms. Adel Anderson assured me Mr. Wilhelms would not be able to practice in TN under these circumstances, and that TN does not have a reciprocity agreement with NJ, and that he must, if he publicly notes himself as an attorney at his Nashville address, specifically have in the letterhead "only licensed in NJ."

He does not. So, it appears to me that Mr. Wilhelms is in fact, advertising himself falsely to clients and potential clients.

This is a screenshot of his official letterhead, (1.) and a link to a site that chronicles his harassment of an individual in TN in 2008, and the outcome, (2.)

1. http://img849.imageshack.us/i/picture1dt.png/

2. http://www.sl-prokeys.com/survive/wilhelms.htm
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Lynn C. Pointer
Programs Administrator
Tennessee Bar Association
221 Fourth Avenue North, Ste. 400
Nashville, TN 37219
1-800-899-6993 (toll free)
615-383-7421
615-297-8058 (fax)
Lpointer@tnbar.org
http://www.tba.org/

Subject: Re: Fred Wilhelms

Ms. Pointer

Thank you. As you can clearly see, he portrays himself publicly as a practicing attorney in Nashville,TN, specializing in the field of entertainment, specifically the pursuit of back royalties for retired or deceased recording artists. He presented himself as such in the NY Times two days ago.

The Times maintains he is a licensed attorney in NJ, but I can find no record of him in the official NJ Bar Association database, nor any other search engine for licensed NJ attorneys. I believe he WAS licensed in NJ at one time, but portraying yourself as licensed in TN, and possibly not being licensed anywhere, is a problem.
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Lynn Pointer <lpointer@tnbar.org> wrote:

TBA Executive Director Allan Ramsaur has forwarded a number of emails to me that he has received concerning Fred Wilhelms as I am the TBA staff person assigned to work with the TBA UPL Committee. I am contacting you to let you know that I am forwarding all of the information that we have received concerning Fred Wilhelms to the TBA Standing Committee on the Protection of the Public from the Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL) for discussion at their next meeting. Someone from that Committee will contact you if they need further information from you.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.


Sincerely,

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Lynn C. Pointer
Programs Administrator
Tennessee Bar Association
221 Fourth Avenue North, Ste. 400
Nashville, TN 37219
1-800-899-6993 <tel:1-800-899-6993> (toll free)
615-383-7421 <tel:615-383-7421>
615-297-8058 <tel:615-297-8058> (fax)
Lpointer@tnbar.org <http://Lpointer@tnbar.org>
http://www.tba.org/ <http://www.tba.org>

This is what Fred Wilhelms says:

Link(scroll to bottom of page):
The Comity That Is Fred Wilhelms

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Since "Comity" sounds like "Comedy"... maybe it's an attempt at humor?

Barron's Law Dictionary:

Bottom line? He misrepresents himself as "an entertainment attorney practicing in Nashville, specializing in the recovery of royalties for music artists."

That means, and he himself has WRITTEN, he has "law clients" in Nashville. No he doesn't. that's a lie. He's not licensed to practice law in TN and he can't even practice in NJ - where he renews his license every year just to be able to make the semantical argument he's an "attorney" (check) who "represents music artists" (sort of check), "not as a 'lawyer,' per se, but, it all is sort of ... true... right?"

Wrong. Sorry Fred. Do not pass "go."

That is breaking the law. That is a clear, consistent, pattern of misrepresenting yourself as something you are not, legally. It'll be interesting to see if TN fines him or sees he's disbarred. They made it very clear he can't do what he is doing.

And, of course, he's Browde's attack dog, another lying sack of shit who should be thrown out of AFTRA and disbarred. Why doesn't the truth seem to matter in this run-up to merger? Why is EVERYBODY complicit in this?