A couple of snippets from the wider legal world this week.

First up, news that a former solicitor has been nabbed on the run and jailed. After being shopped by her cat.

Angela Butler, formerly of Geldards, Derby - pinched stole £43,000 (in small amounts) from client funds, then spanked the cash on holidays and shopping sprees with her daughter. Her firm took an impressive two years to become suspicious before suspending Butler.

A week later, the senior associate failed to show for her disciplinary hearing. Because she had fled to Spain for - The Source imagines - a life of luxury on the Costa del Sol. Police were baffled.

So how did they finally catch up with the pair? Two months into their sojurn to Spain, Butler paid a company in Blighty to ship her cat out to join them. Hoist by her own pet cat.

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/City-solicitor-stole-163-43-000-help-fund-lavish-lifestyle/article-2488115-detail/article.html

And news that Jean Crump, a mortuary worker, has been convicted of a $1.2 million fraud from faking a number of deaths and cashing in life insurance policies. Such was Crump's dedication to her work that on one occasion she went to the extent of staging a funeral - complete with grave and coffin. When insurance companies came sniffing around for proof of death, Crump added to the incredible realism of her scam by exhuming the buried coffin, filling it with a mannequin, topping off with assorted cow offal and cremating it.

Still, at least her job was also her hobby.

The not so brilliantly-worked scam is revealed



http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20012516-504083.html