La Crosse lawyer disciplined for 5th time with license suspension.

Byline: Michaela Paukner, mpaukner@wislawjournal.com

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is disciplining aLa Crosse lawyer for a fifth time. The latest disciplinary action against Donald Harman is a six-month license suspension stemming from misconduct in a divorce case.

A complaint from theOffice of Lawyer Regulation said Harman made improper submissions toa family-court commissioner and disobeyed two court orders handed down in the case, filed in 2016 in La Crosse County. The OLR charged him with three attorney-ethics violations.

The high court decided to suspend Harman's license for six months starting in January 2020. He also has to pay a $4,400 judgment against him in the divorce case and $7,662.28 in costs from the OLR proceeding.

Harman was previously suspended...

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