Disciplinary Case Summaries

• Publication year: 1990
• Pages: 1867

19 Colo.Law. 1867 Colorado Lawyer 1990.

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Disciplinary Case Summaries

Table (June 1990)

MonthYear

Request for investigation forms distributed4382334

Requests for investigation filed118655

Docketed for investigation on receipt23161

Not docketed for investigation on receipt753

Preliminary inquiries made as of 6/3087437

Cases placed in abeyance13

Docketed as of 5/31 after preliminary inquiry1095

Not docketed as of 5/31 after preliminary inquiry82251

Preliminary inquiries in progress as of 5/313

Letters of admonition sent727

Cases in which reasonable cause was found2795

Cases pending before the inquiry panels on 6/30382

Public disciplinary and disability decisions are listed below. Those issued by opinion appear in their entirety in the Colorado Supreme Court "Opinions" section of The Colorado Lawyer. Public disciplinary decisions involving issues that are not routine are summarized below, together with all private censures and selected admonishments. Occasionally, articles will appear in this space in lieu of summaries or with fewer of them.

Public Decisions

Brian J. Mullett: The court transferred the lawyer to disability inactive status on June 1, 1990.

D. Shackelford Shipp: The court suspended the respondent on June 18, 1990, for sixty days, effective thirty days from the date of the court's opinion, and assessed costs of $307.78 against him.

The respondent paid referral fees to or for an inmate in a county jail. He paid 10 percent of retainers he received from other inmates referred to him for legal services. The lawyer violated DR2-103(B) (by compensating a person to recommend or secure his employment by a client).

Al Richard Zinn: The court transferred the lawyer to disability inactive status on June 20, 1990, but granted him sixty days to complete legal matters which were pending on the date of his transfer.

James Stephen Creasey: The court suspended the respondent on June 25, 1990, for ninety days, effective thirty days after the date of the court's order. The court ordered him to make restitution to a client in the amount of $2,000 plus interest, assessed costs of $314.65 against him, and ordered him to seek reinstatement by petition.

Wayne Allen Schmad: The court suspended the lawyer for one year and one day on June 25, 1990...