Northern District of California Magistrate Judge Peter H. Kang has sanctioned three Ramey LLP attorneys as individuals: William P. Ramey III ($45,264) as well as Susan S.Q. Kalra ($8,364) and Jeffrey E. Kubiak ($10,496). Monetary penalties are in the amounts indicated, calculated against pro hac vice application fees avoided as part of a cost-cutting scheme that led Ramey and Kubiak, per the court, to engage in the unauthorized practice of law in California and Kalra to aid and abet that unauthorized practice. Among the court’s other sanctions, the three attorneys are required to distribute copies of the order outlining their behavior: (1) to the Standing Committees of Professional Conduct for the Central and Northern Districts of California; (2) to any judge presiding over a case currently pending in the Northern District of California in which one of their names appears on any filings (as pro hac vice pending or otherwise); and (3) “as an attachment to any motion for pro hac vice admission filed by or on behalf of any of these lawyers in any action filed in a California federal court during the next five years” (court’s emphasis). Meanwhile, last week, Southern District of Florida Judge Robert N. Scola, Jr. shifted attorney fees against another Ramey LLP-repped plaintiff, Ramey, and local counsel, awarding $33,986.43 under 35 U.S.C. § 285 and $50,619.59 under 28 U.S.C. § 1927, adopting a magistrate judge’s report that admonishes Ramey for the unauthorized practice of law there as well.