Disciplinary Notices, 0118 ALBJ, 79 The Alabama Lawyer 62 (2018)

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Disciplinary Notices

Vol. 79 No. 1 Pg. 62

Alabama Bar Lawyer

January, 2018

▲ Reinstatement

▲ Transfers to disability inactive status

▲ Suspensions

▲ Public reprimands

Reinstatement

• On August 25, 2017, the Supreme Court of Alabama entered an order reinstating former Birmingham attorney Angela Turner Drees to the practice of law in Alabama based upon the decision of Panel II of the Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar. On December 16,2010, an order was entered suspending Drees's license to practice law. [Rule 28, Pet. No. 2017-271]

Transfers to Disability Inactive Status

• Bessemer attorney Garry Wayne Abbott was transferred to disability inactive status pursuant to Rule 27(b), Alabama Rules of Disciplinary Procedure, effective September 13, 2017, by order of the Supreme Court of Alabama. The supreme court entered its order based upon the September 13,2017 order of Panel I of the Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar in response to Abbott's request submitted to the Office of General Counsel requesting he betransferred to disability inactive status. [Rule 27(b), Pet. No. 2017-1057]

• Birmingham attorney William Brian Collins was transferred to disability inactive status pursuant to Rule 27(c), Alabama Rules of Disciplinary Procedure, effective August 23,2017, by order of the Supreme Court of Alabama. The supreme court entered its order based upon the August 23,2017 order of Panel I of the Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar in response to Collins's request submitted to the Office of General Counsel requesting he be transferred to disability inactive status. [Rule 27(c), Pet. No. 2017-983]

• Cullman attorney Zebulon Peyton Little was transferred to disability inactive status pursuant to Rule 27(c), Alabama Rules of Disciplinary Procedure, effective August 23, 2017, by order of the Supreme Court of Alabama. The supreme court entered its order based upon the August 23, 2017 order of Panel I of the Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar in response to Little's request submitted to the Office of General Counsel requesting he betransferred to disability inactive status. [Rule 27(c), Pet. No. 2017-984]

Suspensions

• Huntsville attorney Vicki Ann Bell was summarily suspended from the practice of law in Alabama pursuant to Rules 8(c) and 20(a), Ala. R. Disc. P., by order of the Disciplinary Commission of the Alabama State Bar, effective August...

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