Disciplinary Notices
| Publication year | 2010 |
| Pages | 0089 |
| Citation | Vol. 71 No. 1 Pg. 0089 |
REINSTATEMENT
DISBARMENTS
SUSPENSIONS
Reinstatement
• On September 2, 2009, the Supreme Court of Alabama accepted the order entered on August 19, 2009, by Panel I of the Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar reinstating Virginia Dewella Emfinger (Hicks) to the practice of law, with conditions. Emfinger was suspended for a period of one year, effective April 7, 2008. [Rule 28, Pet. No. 09-1605]
Disbarments
• Huntsville attorney James Bant Atwood, Jr. was disbarred from the practice of law in Alabama, effective October 9, 2009, by order of the Supreme Court of Alabama. The supreme court entered its order based upon the decision of the Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar accepting Atwood's consent to disbarment. Atwood admitted that he assisted a disbarred attorney in the unauthorized practice of law. Atwood also admitted that he knowingly made false statements of material fact to the bar during its investigation. [Rule 23(a), Pet. No. 09-2216; ASB No. 09-1157]
• Albertville attorney Lawton Dale Fuller was disbarred from the practice of law in Alabama, effective July 9, 2009, by order of the Supreme Court of Alabama. The supreme court entered its order based upon the decision of the Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar accepting Fuller's consent to disbarment. Fuller admitted to improperly converting client funds held in his trust account. [Rule 23(a), Pet. No. 09-1814; Rule 20(a), Pet. No. 09-1777(A); ASB No. 09-1778(A)]
• Mobile attorney Joseph Gullatte Hunter, III was disbarred from the practice of law in Alabama, effective September 3, 2009, by order of the Alabama Supreme Court. The supreme court entered its order based upon the decision of the Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar accepting Hunter's surrender of his license and consent to disbarment, which was based upon his acknowledgement that there were currently pending investigations into his ethical conduct as a lawyer that concerned alleged violations of rules 1.3, 1.4(a), 1.4(b), 1.15, and 8.4(a), (b), (c), (d), and (g), Ala. R. Prof. C., and, if proven, would likely result in serious discipline by the bar, to include disbarment. [Rule 23, Pet. No. 09-2098 et al]
• Montgomery attorney Gary L. Stephens was disbarred from the practice of law in Alabama by order of the Supreme Court of Alabama, effective September 1, 2008, the date of Stephens's previously-ordered suspension. The...
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