678 results for 'cat:"Attorney Discipline"'.
Per curiam, the appellate division finds that attorney Rosemarie Andrea Anderson may be reinstated in New York after being suspended for one year corresponding to disbarment in her home state of New Jersey for misappropriating client money because Anderson complied with the order of suspension and demonstrated the requisite character to practice law.
Court: New York Appellate Divisions, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: March 7, 2024, Case #: PM-34-24, Categories: attorney Discipline
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J. Beckwith suspends Pablo A. Zamora for six months for misappropriation of client funds. Although the Board on Professional Responsibility recommended Zamora be disbarred, evidence supports the hearing committee's finding his misappropriation was negligent, rather than reckless.
Court: DC Court of Appeals, Judge: Beckwith, Filed On: March 7, 2024, Case #: 22-BG-0943 , Categories: Evidence, attorney Discipline
Per curiam, the appellate division finds that attorney Youngsoog Na may be reinstated from her January 2014 suspension for failing to meet registration requirements since she demonstrated compliance with the suspension order and that she possesses the requisite character to practice law.
Court: New York Appellate Divisions, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: March 7, 2024, Case #: PM-31-24, Categories: attorney Discipline
Per curiam, the appellate division finds that Michael Anthony Deem shall be disbarred following his failure to respond to 11 charges of professional misconduct alleging that he engaged in conduct that had no reasonable purpose but to harass another.
Court: New York Appellate Divisions, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: March 6, 2024, Case #: 01174, Categories: attorney Discipline
Per curiam, the Georgia Supreme Court accepts attorney Shaquandra A. Woods's petition for voluntary interim suspension of her license pending the outcome of an appeal of her conspiracy to commit wire fraud conviction. The conviction violates the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct.
Court: Georgia Supreme Court, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: March 5, 2024, Case #: S24Y0566, Categories: Judiciary, attorney Discipline
Per curiam, the Georgia Supreme Court disbars attorney Andrea Jo Anne David-Vega for her multiple violations of the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct during her representation of a client in a personal injury claim. The attorney failed to file an action on the client's behalf before the expiration of the two-year statute of limitation and failed to provide him with requested files. The attorney admitted to fabricating a text message and an e-mail supposedly sent from the client terminating the attorney's representation.
Court: Georgia Supreme Court, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: March 5, 2024, Case #: S24Y0099, Categories: Judiciary, attorney Discipline
Per curiam, the Oklahoma Supreme Court approves Guy Wade Jackson's resignation pending disciplinary proceedings. An emergency application for citation for indirect contempt of court was filed based on the attorney's continuous refusal to obey court orders related to attempts to collect judgments for $73,000 and $208,000, and an arbitration award for $9.9 million. The judgments and award were imposed for the attorney's misconduct involving his representation of several clients and trust beneficiaries. His affidavit of resignation was freely and voluntarily rendered.
Court: Oklahoma Supreme Court, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: March 4, 2024, Case #: SCBD-7581, Categories: Administrative Law, Arbitration, attorney Discipline
Per curiam. The Kansas Supreme Court finds a lower court properly disciplined Leon J. Davis for failing to disclose a felony DUI to the office of the disciplinary administrator. The attorney argued that he experienced a "miraculous" turnaround since his arrest for drunk driving. However, the imposed two- year suspension is based on the severity of his offense. Affirmed.
Court: Kansas Supreme Court, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: March 1, 2024, Case #: 126479, Categories: attorney Discipline
Per curiam, the appellate division finds that conditions set in reinstating attorney William Castro to practice law in New York have been satisfied and thus should be terminated. Before reinstatement in 2021, Castro had been disbarred based on his conviction for multiple federal felonies in Florida.
Court: New York Appellate Divisions, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: February 29, 2024, Case #: PM-20-24, Categories: attorney Discipline
Per curiam, the Minnesota Supreme Court disbars attorney Fong Lee for misappropriating client funds. Absent any mitigating factors and with several aggravating factors, disbarment is the appropriate discipline for an attorney who misappropriated funds from three clients.
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: February 28, 2024, Case #: A23-0008, Categories: attorney Discipline
J. Feuer finds that the trial court properly held that an attorney should have produced documents in response to a subpoena from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. But it was error to disqualify the attorney from representing a former member who was suing the association because no evidence showed that the privileged information prejudiced the association, and the disqualification deprived the former member of his right to his choice of counsel. The proper discipline would be a sanction or to report the attorney to the state bar. Reversed.
Court: California Courts Of Appeal, Judge: Feuer, Filed On: February 27, 2024, Case #: B324842, Categories: Privilege, Contract, attorney Discipline
Per curiam, the supreme court finds that Erick Tyrone and the attorney disciplinary agency have properly stipulated to a six-month suspension of Tyrone's Wisconsin law license as discipline reciprocal to that issued by the Court of Appeals of Maryland for failing to competently represent his client and mishandling client funds in his trust account, among other misconduct. Tyrone's administrative suspensions of his Wisconsin law license for failure to pay bar dues, file trust account certifications and continue his legal education as required will remain in place. The agency seeks no costs related to Tyrone's disciplinary proceeding, so none are imposed.
Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: February 27, 2024, Case #: 2023AP001332-D, Categories: attorney Discipline
Per curiam, the supreme court finds the attorney oversight agency's referee has properly called for Paul Strouse's Wisconsin law license to be revoked for professional misconduct, which includes knowingly taking and using another attorney's notary stamp and electronic signature on more than a dozen sworn affidavits and lying to a bankruptcy court about it, as well as a facilitating law work for another attorney whose license was suspended. Strouse is found in default for failing to respond to the agency's disciplinary complaint, and, in light of his three previous public reprimands and one previous suspension, the seriousness of Strouse's misconduct calls for the harshest sanction possible. Strouse's license is revoked, and he is ordered to pay the $2,456 cost of his disciplinary proceeding within 60 days.
Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: February 27, 2024, Case #: 2023AP001032-D, Categories: attorney Discipline
Per curiam, the Supreme Court of Nebraska accepts Benjamin L. Bramblett's conditional admission and enters an order of public reprimand. Charges against the attorney include that of incompetence, as well as violations involving communications, respect for rights of third person and misconduct, all involving a child custody dispute. Due to the conditional admission, it is found Bramblett knowingly does not challenge the matters and has waived proceedings.
Court: Nebraska Supreme Court, Judge: Per curiam, Filed On: February 23, 2024, Case #: S-23-778, Categories: Family Law, Guardianship, attorney Discipline