Alice vs. Wonderland

About the Book

This work of fiction, was inspired by an actual case where the Kentucky Bar Association investigated a prominent lawyer for merely writing a letter to the Kentucky Legislature which was critical of a ruling of the Legislative Ethics Commission. The Ministry is a secret government agency and their actions are not subject to disclosure. The legal rules cited actually exist and provide a warning to those who create such rules of the need for reform, not only to protect lawyers, but to protect the public who consume legal services and expect their lawyer to have the right to fearlessly represent them.

This case was only made public when the attorney, John M. Berry Jr. and the ACLU, filed a federal lawsuit. That case is currently on appeal to the 6th. U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Alice is a member of the Ky. Supreme Court. She fights the Ministry of Ethics, an agency of the Courts which investigates and sanctions attorneys for any conduct they find to be offensive.

This book was published in April of 2011. In November of 2011 the chief KBA ethics prosecutor was fired. The Bar Association has never given a reason for her discharge.

About the Author

Stan Billingsley is a retired judge, having served in the District and Circuit trial courts.

Before being elected a judge, he served as an Administrative Assistant to Gov. Edward T. Breathitt and later was elected to the Kentucky Legislature.

He served on the Ky. Judicial Conduct Commission. In 1995 the Ky. Bar Association voted him the Judge of the Year.

Judge Billingsley is Senior Editor of LawReader.com, a company that provides online legal research resources to the legal profession.

He is the author of numerous books and articles on the law. He lives in Carrollton, Ky. near the Ohio River, with his wife Gwen.