Disciplinary Notices, 1120 ALBJ, Vol. 81 No. 6 Pg. 449 (November, 2020)
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▲ Reinstatement
▲ Transfer to Inactive Status
▲ Disbarments Suspensions
▲ Public Reprimand
Reinstatement
On July 22,2020, the Alabama Supreme Court entered an order reinstating former Mobile attorney Michael Bruce Smith to the practice of law in Alabama, with conditions, based upon the decision of Panel I of the Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar. Smith had been on inactive status since December 1,2014. [Pet. No. 2019-1456]
Transfer to Inactive Status
• Montgomery attorney Elizabeth Vickers Addison was transferred to inactive status, effective February 25, 2020, by order of the Supreme Court of Alabama. The Supreme Court of Alabama entered its order based upon the February 25,2020 order of Panel III of the Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar in response to Addison's petition submitted to the Office of General Counsel requesting she be transferred to inactive status. [Rule 27(c), Pet. No. 2020-291]
Disbarments
Birmingham attorney Charles Todd Henderson was disbarred from the practice of law in Alabama by order of the Alabama Supreme Court, effective July 15, 2020. The Alabama Supreme Court entered its order based on the Disciplinary Board's order accepting Henderson's consent to disbarment, in which Henderson had pending formal charges in ASB No. 2016-666. Additionally, Henderson was convicted of perjury in the first degree in the Jefferson County Circuit Court. [Rule 23(a), Pet. No. 2020-639; ASB No. 2016-666]
Birmingham attorney Edward Eugene May was disbarred from the practice of law in Alabama by order of the Supreme Court of Alabama, effective July 15, 2020. The Supreme Court of Alabama entered its order following affirmance of an appeal filed by May to the Supreme Court of Alabama. The Supreme Court of Alabama's order affirmed the Disciplinary Board's order of disbarment filed on April 11, 2019, finding May guilty of violating Rules 5.5 [Unauthorized Practice of Law] and 8.4(d) and (g) [Misconduct], Alabama Rules of Professional Conduct. May had previously been suspended from the practice of law in Alabama in April 2018 for 91 days by the Supreme Court of Alabama for repeatedly violating the terms of his probation in another disciplinary matter. While suspended, May appeared on behalf of a client before the Alabama State Board of Medical Examiners and filed legal...
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