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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Cain denies a request by a Texas-based law firm to reject a lower court’s recommendations that it be barred from intervening in a former client’s suit to recover fees and out-of-pocket expenses prior to its lawyers’ suspension from the practice in Louisiana for using modern-day runners to get clients, a state-law felony. The firm unsuccessfully argued the magistrate judge exceeded her authority and failed to apply the correct legal standards in her report. However, the ruling agrees with the magistrate judge’s conclusions the firm’s assertions fail to support its request for intervention and that the firm has acted with so little regard for the rules of ethics and professional conduct that it deprived itself of the ability to provide any meaningful service to clients with legitimate claims.