After 20 years, high court lets Milwaukee lawyer practice law again.

Byline: Erika Strebel, erika.strebel@wislawjournal.com

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reinstated the license of a Milwaukee attorney who was suspended about 20 years ago.

The high court in 1997 suspended Robert Malloy's license for a year for breaking more than a dozen lawyer-ethics rules. Five months after deciding to suspend Malloy's license, the court added another three months to the suspension.

Malloy, who earned his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1992, attempted to get his license reinstated in 2000, but the high court denied his request. He filed another reinstatement attempt in December.

The OLR did not object to Malloy's reinstatement, though it did recommend that Malloy, in order to be reinstated, must attend the OLR's yearly trust accounting seminar and submit his trust account and business records to the OLR each quarter on a quarterly basis for the next two years.

The court appointed retired judge Dennis Flynn to preside over the case. He held an evidentiary hearing in August and recommended in November that the justices reinstate Malloy with...