For an official public disciplinary and licensing history of any attorney, contact the Statewide Grievance Committee at (860) 568-5157 or at [email protected]. Decisions of the Statewide Grievance Committee imposing discipline, published after 1996, are available here: Grievance Decisions. All grievance decisions published after ...
Connecticut's Statewide Grievance Committee this week reported 10 attorneys faced disciplinary actions, including presentments, reprimands, disbarments and suspensions. The committee also ...
Mar 11, 2020 · Reporter Twelve Connecticut attorneys were disciplined for ethics charges, according to the latest roundup of attorney discipline cases. The …
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The committee had suspended Wynne in January for 60 days for failing on numerous occasions to communicate with a former client and her new counsel regarding a medical lien settlement.
Scher is now also disbarred from practicing in Connecticut for seven years, effective March 26.
It ordered Hume to pay Liu $1,000 every month for 15 months over the case stemming from a grievance complaint initiated in November 2016. Hume did not dispute the money belonged to his client and should be returned. Elizabeth Kopec:
He also said he had a form of dementia and was also resigning for personal and health reasons. William McCullough: The committee accepted the resignation of Stamford attorney William McCullough, effective March 6, after finding he had "committed professional misconduct.".
Stone claimed Czap spent almost all of his money, and said he was never informed of charges and fees that Czap allegedly took before the financial report was filed with the court. The reviewing committee concluded Czap engaged in unethical conduct while acting as Stone's court-appointed conservator.
Presentments are generally reserved for more serious cases that can result in a court order for suspension or disbarment. The rules authorize the SGC or a reviewing committee to impose the following sanctions and conditions: 1. reprimand; 2. restitution, for example, return of property belonging to the complainant; 3.
After the hearing, the SGC (or a reviewing committee) may decide to (1) dismiss the complaint; (2) impose sanctions and conditions short of suspension or disbarment against the attorney; or (3) direct that the attorney be brought before the Superior Court in a proceeding known as a presentment. Presentments are generally reserved ...
The notice of dismissal must specify the reasons for the dismissal. The complainant has 14 days from the date notice of the dismissal is mailed to him to file an appeal. (This is the only instance in the grievance process that a complainant can appeal an adverse ruling.)
When a presentment is taken to the Superior Court, a public trial is held unless a settlement is reached, and the court may dismiss the complaint or make any order necessary to protect the public including a reprimand, suspension, or disbarment. The Superior Court's decision is final.
1. confer with and, if possible, meet with the complainants and assist them in understanding the grievance process and answer questions they may have concerning that process; 2. investigate all complaints the grievance panel receives from the statewide bar counsel involving an attorney's alleged misconduct;
There are one or more grievance panels in each of the state's 13 judicial districts. A grievance panel is composed of one person who is not an attorney and two attorneys whose law offices are in judicial districts outside that in which the panel serves. Each panel also has an alternate member who is an attorney.
Thus, a minimum of six votes for a particular action is necessary for the committee to act. Members present but not voting due to disqualification, abstention, silence, or a refusal to vote, must be counted to establish a quorum, but not counted in calculating a majority of those present and voting.
Some reasons for dismissing complaints: only involves a fee dispute which is not clearly excessive or improper; no claim of misconduct; does not contain specific enough information on which to base an investigation; duplicates a complaint already considered and dismissed; or,
Every Judicial District has a grievance panel made up of one lay person and two attorneys who do not have offices in the Judicial District. The panel decides whether there is "probable cause" to believe that the lawyer is guilty of misconduct.
The procedure for disciplining lawyers is also in the Practice Book, beginning with Section 2-29. In addition, the Statewide Grievance Committee has adopted its own rules of procedure to supplement those found in the practice book.
If the claim is not eligible for reimbursement, you will be notified. Eligible claims are investigated, and the Client Security Fund Committee determines, in its sole discretion, the amount of reimbursement that will be allowed, if any, and how payment will be made.
Such a dismissal is a final decision, subject to no further review, unless there is an allegation in the complaint that the attorney committed a crime, in which case a finding of no probable cause will be reviewed by the Statewide Grievance Committee. The Statewide Grievance Committee is a board of 21 members.
A loss that was the result of investment services provided by an attorney; A loss presented more than four years after the loss was discovered or should have been discovered; A loss suffered by a close relative, business associate, partner, or employee of the attorney who caused the loss;
The Superior Court regulates the practice of law in Connecticut. There are three ways to practice law legally in Connecticut. (They are more fully described in the Connecticut Practice Book Sections 8 and following.)