The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended her for one year and until further order of the Court. In two cases, Mr. Wills failed to appear in court for clients, leading to the dismissal of the cases. The suspension is effective on April 15, 2022. A suspension until further order of the Court is an indefinite suspension which requires the suspended lawyer to petition for reinstatement after the fixed period of suspension ends. The suspension is effective on February 11, 2021. The Supreme Court of Indiana suspended him for 180 days, with 60 days actively served and the remainder stayed subject to completion of at least two years of conditional probation. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin, in two disciplinary proceedings, imposed concurrent five-month suspensions for neglecting a client's matter, failing to return or forward client files in four matters, and failing to respond to demands for information from the Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation in five investigations. Mr. Kanarish was licensed in Illinois in 1971 and in Arizona in 2011. A suspension until further order of the Court is an indefinite suspension which requires the suspended lawyer to petition for reinstatement after the fixed period of suspension ends. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended him for one year and until he is reinstated to the practice of law in New Jersey. Ms. Lane, who was licensed in 2006, was suspended for nine months, with the suspension stayed after six months by a six-month term of probation with conditions. The Supreme Court of Iowa suspended her with no possibility for reinstatement for one year. Mr. Smith, who was licensed in 1995, was suspended for five months. Those charges were later dismissed. The suspension is effective on April 15, 2022. Reinstatement is not automatic and must be allowed by the Supreme Court of Illinois following a hearing before the ARDC Hearing Board. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and censured him, as his Arizona probation had ended. Ms. Murray, who was licensed in 2013, was suspended for six months and until further order of the Court and until she completes the ARDC Professionalism Seminar. In the course of representing a client, he failed to promptly turn over $43,601 in funds belonging to the client and third parties. The suspension is effective on October 12, 2022. Mr. Stroth, who was licensed in 2001, was suspended for 30 days and ordered to take the ARDC's professionalism seminar. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended him for five months and until he is reinstated to the practice of law in Iowa. He engaged in conduct with no substantial purpose other than to embarrass, delay, and burden a third person in the course of pending litigation by using vulgar and abusive language toward his female opposing counsel during a deposition. Mr. Ybarra, who was licensed in 2008, was suspended for one year, with the suspension stayed after 60 days by an 18-month period of conditional probation. Mr. Moore, who was licensed in 1986, was suspended for one year and until further order of Court. Mr. Bowe was licensed in Illinois in 1982 and in New Jersey in 1984. Mr. Blumenfeld, who was licensed in 1967, was disbarred on consent. Mr. The suspension is effective on October 12, 2022. The suspension is effective on October 14, 2021. An Arizona disciplinary hearing panel disbarred him for engaging in a pattern of misconduct in three separate matters. Mr. Salgado, who was licensed in 1993, was suspended for one year with all but the first 30 days stayed by a one-year period of conditional probation. While representing a client in a criminal matter, she falsified her client's signature on a written arraignment form and then made misrepresentations to the court about what she had done. Reinstatement is not automatic and must be allowed by the Supreme Court of Illinois following a hearing before the ARDC Hearing Board. This page contains ARDC summaries of recent disciplinary decisions issued by the Supreme Court of Illinois. At the time of the conversion, Mr. Salgado was not maintaining the appropriate trust accounting records. In 2016, Mr. Szymanski was arrested and charged with aggravated domestic battery and domestic battery arising from an incident in which he pushed his spouse against a wall and placed his hands around her throat, causing a partial obstruction of her breathing. Mr. Farwell, who was licensed in 1992, was suspended for ninety days. A suspension until further order of the Court is an indefinite suspension which requires the suspended lawyer to petition for reinstatement after the fixed period of suspension ends. Mr. Stephens, who was licensed in 1975, was suspended for one year and until further order of the Court. Antonio Brown was suspended from social media application Snapchat on Tuesday after he was reported by the mother of his children for posting sexually explicit photos of her on his story, TMZ . Mr. Levy was licensed in Illinois in 1999 and in North Carolina in 2001. Mr. Ries, who licensed in 1998, was suspended from the practice of law for two years and until he is reinstated to the practice of law before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin 1) publicly reprimanded him for providing incompetent representation, engaging in action that served merely to harass or maliciously injure an opposing party, and engaging in an ex parte communication with a court; 2) suspended him for 60 days for neglecting two client matters, failing to communicate with those clients, and failing to make a reasonably diligent effort to comply with discovery requests; and 3) suspended him for 60 days for mishandling his trust account, and failing to cooperate with a disciplinary investigation. The Supreme Court of Iowa suspended him with no possibility of reinstatement for one year for sexually harassing two clients. Mr. Willey was licensed in Illinois in 2008 and in Iowa in 1993. She failed to act diligently on a client's domestic relations matter, failed to adequately communicate with the client, and filed a pleading in the case containing false statements. Mr. Raines was licensed in Missouri in 1989 and in Illinois in 1997. Ms. Kieffer was licensed in Illinois in 2001 and in Iowa in 2002. He also made a false statement to the ARDC during its investigation of his conduct. Mr. Rueda, who was licensed in 2011, was suspended from the practice of law for one year, with the suspension stayed after thirty days in favor of a two-year period of probation. The Presiding Disciplinary Judge of the Supreme Court of Arizona suspended her for six months and required that, upon her reinstatement, she be placed on a two-year period of conditional probation. In another case, he represented a client despite a conflict of interest and acted dishonestly to benefit a third person in the transfer of a condominium via a quitclaim deed. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline, reprimanding her and placing her on a one-year period of probation, nunc pro tunc to May 10, 2022, subject to the conditions imposed by Arizona and continuing until she successfully completes her Arizona probation. Mr. Tresslar was licensed in Missouri in 1985 and in Illinois in 1986. Rod Blagojevich After CBS 2 reported on the ARDC complaint, Dickler suspended Pasulka from serving as guardian ad litem in Cook County and removed him as the chair of . The Supreme Court of Missouri entered an order suspending her indefinitely with no petition for reinstatement to be filed for one year. The Supreme Court of Missouri disbarred him for failing to diligently represent a client, failing to maintain complete records for his trust account, misappropriating more than $68,000 belonging to his clients, and making misrepresentations to a tribunal. Mr. Sherman agreed that there was factual predicate for disciplinary action against him. The suspension is effective on December 7, 2021. Posted April 1, 2022 12:54 PM. Mr. Easley failed act with reasonable diligence to complete an elderly client's estate planning matter and did not reasonably communicate with the client. The suspension is effective on October 12, 2022. Mr. Darnell did not diligently pursue a client's personal injury matter, did not reasonably communicate with his client, and made misrepresentations to his client about the status of her matter. He made false or reckless statements about the integrity of a federal bankruptcy judge in nine motions filed in the bankruptcy or federal district court. The payments totaled over $136,000. His misconduct arose from his guilty pleas in two Rock Island County cases to charges of possession of a controlled substance and delivery of methamphetamine. Sheldon Lee Banks, Deerfield A suspension until further order of the Court is an indefinite suspension which requires the suspended lawyer to petition for reinstatement after the fixed period of suspension ends. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and disbarred him. The suspension is effective on February 11, 2021. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and entered an order reprimanding him and suspending him for nine months and until he is reinstated to the practice of law in Maine. The suspension is effective on December 7, 2021. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended him for one year and until he is reinstated to the practice of law in Iowa. In another matter, following a dispute with his former partners that went to arbitration, Mr. McNabola issued a subpoena for an employee's cell phone records under the caption of the closed arbitration matter. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended her for six months and until she is reinstated to the practice of law in Arizona. He refused to withdraw his appearance in a client's dissolution of marriage case after the client's relative, who had been authorized as the client's attorney-in-fact, terminated his representation, and he filed frivolous pleadings and acted dishonestly to benefit himself in the matter. He was suspended on an interim basis on October 15, 2020. Ms. Beran, who was licensed in 2000, was suspended for six months and until further order of the Court, with the suspension stayed after 30 days by a two-year period of probation with conditions. 26037, 2010 PR 64 (Ill. Sept. 26, 2013). The suspension is effective on February 11, 2021. Mr. Fromme, who was licensed in 2007, was suspended for three years and until further order of the Court. A suspension until further order of the Court is an indefinite suspension which requires the suspended lawyer to petition for reinstatement after the fixed period of suspension ends. ILLINOIS - The Illinois Supreme Court's Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission has announced the suspension of two central Illinois attorneys. Reinstatement is not automatic and must be allowed by the Supreme Court of Illinois following a hearing before the ARDC Hearing Board. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended him for six months and until further order of the Court, with the suspension stayed in its entirety by a one-year period of probation, nunc pro tunc to February 8, 2022, subject to the conditions imposed in Missouri and continuing until he successfully completes his Missouri probation. Mr. Cohn, who was licensed in 1983, was suspended for six months and until he completes the ARDC Professionalism Seminar. Reinstatement is not automatic and must be allowed by the Supreme Court of Illinois following a hearing before the ARDC Hearing Board. A lawyer who embezzled almost $80,000 from former clients should be suspended for three years, according to the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission Review Board.Robert John Hankes, a former employee of Vedder Price P.C., was found to have created false invoices for his former . When he eventually opened the probate case, he forged the client's signature on documents and filed them with the court. Mr. Piatt was licensed in Illinois in 2011 and in Indiana in 2015. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and imposed a reprimand and a 60-day suspension. Mr. Gonzalez, who was licensed in 2012, was suspended for one year and until further order of the Court. If an objection is filed, the suspension shall not become effective until the evaluation of the objection is completed. A review board of the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) has recommended a nine-month and six-month suspension for two attorneys accused of bringing a lawsuit for the purpose of harassment. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and disbarred him. Ms. Winbush, who was licensed in 2013, was suspended for 90 days and until further order of the Court, with the suspension stayed in its entirety by a two-year period of probation with conditions. Mr. Moonen is currently suspended in Iowa on a separate case involving his failure to cooperate with Iowa disciplinary authorities' investigations. He also represented clients when he was administratively suspended from the practice of law. The Presiding Disciplinary Judge of the Supreme Court of Arizona entered an order suspending him, on a reciprocal basis, for 45 days, effective retroactively to July 15, 2020, based upon an order of discipline from the Executive Office for Immigration Review of the United States Department of Justice. Mr. White was licensed in Illinois in 1982 and in Maine in 1988. The suspension is effective on October 14, 2021. The Supreme Court of Iowa suspended him for 30 days for failing to communicate with a client, collecting an unauthorized fee in a Social Security disability benefits matter, neglecting a client's case, and mishandling client funds. Mr. Sanchez was licensed in Illinois in 2003 and in Missouri in 2010. He delayed in filing a probate case and misled his client about the case's status. While she was engaged in litigation in a federal court, Ms. Lane sent three e-mails containing false or reckless statements about a magistrate judge's integrity to the judge, courtroom personnel and another attorney involved in the case. He attempted to settle two cases without his clients' permission and made misrepresentations to a tribunal and opposing counsel about the status of the cases. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended Mr. Kovac for five months. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended him for three years and until he is reinstated in Indiana. The suspension is effective on June 8, 2021. Please note: Some lawyers named as respondents in disciplinary proceedings may have names similar to other lawyers on the master roll of attorneys. Sheets, who was licensed in 1990, was suspended for thirty days for engaging in the unauthorized practice of law. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended her for one year, with the suspension stayed in its entirety by a one-year period of probation, nunc pro tunc to November 21, 2020, subject to the conditions imposed in California, and continuing until she completes her California probation. The changes reduce the cost of returning to the master roll for retired status attorneys and attorneys whose ARDC registration has lapsed. The suspension is effective on June 8, 2021. Johnson, Matter Number: 2022PR00007, In re Jessica Rose Allen, Matter Number: 2021PR00055, In re Roni S. VanAusdall, Matter Number: 2021PR00039, In re Patrick Daley Thompson, Matter Number: 2022PR00014, In re Paul D. Buhl, Matter Number: 2021PR00075, In re Robert John Hankes, Matter Number: 2019PR00102, In re Brent Michael Wills, Matter Number: 2021PR00021, In re Timothy J. Fitzgerald, Matter Number: 2017PR00116, In re Michael Christopher Burr, Matter Number: 2021PR00004, In re Mark A. Hamill, Matter Number: 2021PR00016, In re Edward William Hynes, Matter Number: 2021PR00065, In re Jeffrey Marc Benjamin, Matter Number: 2021PR00052, In re William John Bowe, Matter Number: 2021PR00058, In re Patrick Jon Hudec, Matter Number: 2021PR00060, In re Thomas Michael Barrett, Matter Number: 2021PR00064, In re Jennifer Prager Sodaro, Matter Number: 2021PR00066, In re Robert Lee Officer, Matter Number: 2021PR00068, In re Sean Michael Liles, Matter Number: 2020PR00022, In re Leijuana Doss, Matter Number: 2021PR00022, In re Wanemond Smith, Matter Number: 2020PR00089, In re John P. Jacoby, Matter Number: 2021PR00067, In re Michael Leonard Loprieno, Matter Number: 2019PR00101, In re James Robert Mason, Matter Number: 2021PR00045, In re Todd William Sivia, Matter Number: 2021PR00015, In re Matthew Clay Piatt, Matter Number: 2021PR00024, In re Carrie Kooi, Matter Number: 2021PR00023, In re Barbara Julia Luther, Matter Number: 2021PR00025, In re Michael Bernard Potere, Matter Number: 2021PR00026, In re Cynthia Jean Koroll, Matter Number: 2016PR00079, In re Lisa Michelle Edgar, Matter Number: 2021PR00027, In re Craig Carnell Cunningham, Matter Number: 2019PR00019, In re Donald George Groble, Matter Number: 2020PR00081, In re Bryan S. Flangel, Matter Number: 2021PR00029, In re Andrew Martin Stroth, Matter Number: 2019PR00065, In re Alan Kent Wittig, Matter Number: 2021PR00033, In re John Anthony Ward, Matter Number: 2021PR00034, In re Henry A. Weber, Matter Number: 2020PR00087, In re James Mark McTighe, Matter Number: 2021PR00035, In re Efrain L. Sanchez, Matter Number: 2021PR00036, In re John George Steckel, Matter Number: 2021PR00038, In re Stephen Thomas Fieweger, Matter Number: 2021PR00042, In re Veronica Reyes, Matter Number: 2021PR00043, In re Peter J. Kovac, Matter Number: 2021PR00046, In re Edward Sergio Rueda, Matter Number: 2020PR00042, In re Brian David Pondenis, Matter Number: 2020PR00048, In re Mark Vincent Kelly, Matter Number: 2020PR00029, In re Barry Edward Blumenfeld, Matter Number: 2021PR00057, In re Stephanie Alexandra Gerstetter, Matter Number: 2021PR00050, In re Nathaniel Gordon, Matter Number: 2020PR00059, In re Jessica Lynn Jones, Matter Number: 2021PR00020, In re John Paul Paleczny, Matter Number: 2021PR00051, In re Jennifer Prager Sodaro, Matter Number: 2020PR00080, In re Jeffrey P. White, Matter Number: 2021PR00003, In re Hrant Norsigian Jr., Matter Number: 2021PR00005, In re Marie A. Durbin, Matter Number: 2021PR00006, In re Radford Reuben Raines III, Matter Number: 2021PR00007, In re Eric James Dale, Matter Number: 2021PR00009, In re Howard Randolph Baker Jr., Matter Number: 2020PR00061, In re Michael Lee Henneberry, Matter Number: 2021PR00011, In re John Thomas Sheets, Matter Number: 2020PR00075, In re Dwight White, Matter Number: 2020PR00006, In re John L. Allen, Matter Number: 2021PR00013, In re William Briskin Kohn, Matter Number: 2019PR00008, In re Nikola Duric, Matter Number: 2015PR00052, In re Shelby Kanarish, Matter Number: 2021PR00014, In re Patrick J. O'Shea, Matter Number: 2020PR00037, In re Joseph C. Farwell, Matter Number: 2019PR00089, In re Lee Jackson, Matter Number: 2020PR00079, In re Joshua Nathan Levy, Matter Number: 2020PR00082, In re Rufus James Tate Jr., Matter Number: 2020PR00085, In re Michael Jerome Moore, Matter Number: 2020PR00017, In re Ryne DeGrave, Matter Number: 2020PR00044, In re Jose Arvizu Bracamonte, Matter Number: 2021PR00001, In re Burton Douglas Stephens Jr., Matter Number: 2020PR00021, In re Oscar Antonio Gonzalez, Matter Number: 2018PR00066, In re Nathaniel Jay Pomrenze, Matter Number: 2019PR00059, In re John Henry Salgado, Matter Number: 2019PR00073, In re Christopher Steven Jones, Matter Number: 2020PR00067, In re John Christopher Carver, Matter Number: 2020PR00074, In re Jan R. Kowalski, Matter Number: 2020PR00077, In re Robert Michael Kowalski, Matter Number: 2020PR00078, In re William Layne Roberts, Matter Number: 2019PR00021, In re Jeffrey Bart Cooper, Matter Number: 2020PR00066, In re Vincenzo Field, Matter Number: 2018PR00015, In re Thomas Eric Wettermann, Matter Number: 2020PR00031, In re Franklin Joseph Furlett, Matter Number: 2019PR00028, In re Charles Andrew Cohn, Matter Number: 2018PR00109, In re Joan Arthetta Hill-McClain, Matter Number: 2017PR00100, In re Andrew Thomas Freund, Matter Number: 2020PR00070, In re Dean William O'Connor, Matter Number: 2020PR00071, In re Mary L. Lemp, Matter Number: 2020PR00072, In re Anish A. Parikh, Matter Number: 2019PR00005, In re David M. Jankura, Matter Number: 2018PR00052, In re Shirley Ruth Calloway, Matter Number: 2020PR00032, In re John Hudson McWard, Matter Number: 2020PR00008, Pending Motions for Disbarment on Consent. Mr. Cooper was licensed in Indiana in 2004 and in Illinois in 2005. A suspension until further order of the Court is an indefinite suspension which requires the suspended lawyer to petition for reinstatement after the fixed period of suspension ends. In securing a $200,000 loan for a company that he and a client co-owned, the repayment of which that client personally guaranteed, he entered into a business transaction with a second client without disclosing the first client's financial liabilities and without obtaining the second client's informed consent. Over an eight-month period, he used more than $16,000 in funds belonging to a bar association of which he was then president, without authority, by withdrawing funds from the associations bank account and charging personal expenses to the associations credit and debit cards. Mr. McTighe, who was licensed in 1991, was disbarred on consent. He committed the criminal act of aggravated battery on one of his neighbors, a woman over 60 years of age. He was suspended for one year with the suspension stayed after 60 days in favor of an 18-month period of probation with conditions. Also, in the course of the disciplinary investigation, Mr. Cunningham made false statements to the ARDC about his use of a credit card account set up by his wife. The suspension is effective on October 14, 2021. The suspension is effective on April 6, 2021. The suspension is effective on February 7, 2023. The ARDC may seek an interim suspension whenever an attorney has been charged with (as opposed to convicted of) a crime that involves moral turpitude or a crime that reflects adversely on the attorney's fitness to practice law, and there is persuasive evidence to support the charge. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and disbarred him. He failed to properly communicate with his clients, waitresses who were the subject of charges that they had violated a local ordinance, and improperly represented the women despite a conflict of interest arising from his concurrent representation of the restaurant chain that employed them. He commingled and used without authority approximately $5,200 in others' funds in connection with real estate escrow and earnest money matters. The suspension is effective on October 12, 2022. The suspension is effective on October 14, 2021. A suspension until further order of the Court is an indefinite suspension which requires the suspended lawyer to petition for reinstatement after the fixed period of suspension ends. The suspension is effective on October 14, 2021. Mr. Kolb, who was licensed in 1994, was suspended for 30 days. Mr. White, who was licensed in 2014, was suspended for two years and until further order of the Court, stayed after one year in favor of a three-year period of probation subject to conditions. Mr. Hudec was licensed in Wisconsin in 1979 and in Illinois in 1980. He converted over $29,000 in client funds to his own use, falsely reported the status of cases and settlements to his clients, and neglected a number of insurance subrogation matters. Ms. Lowery, who was licensed in 2000, was suspended for 30 days and required to successfully complete the ARDC Professionalism Seminar within one year. The Missouri Supreme Court indefinitely suspended him, with the suspension fully stayed by a one-year period of probation with conditions, and ordered that, should probation be revoked and the suspension take effect, no petition for reinstatement would be considered for a period of six months from the date the suspension became effective. The ARDC has two offices, one in Chicago located at 130 E. Randolph Drive, Suite 1500, Chicago, Illinois 60601, (312) 565-2600; and one in Springfield located at 3161 West White Oaks Drive, Suite 301, Springfield, Illinois 62704, (217) 546-3523. He did so even though he knew that the insurance company was unaware that his client had died. He was found by the ARDC's Hearing Board to have made false or reckless statements about the integrity and qualifications of a federal bankruptcy judge in nine motions and to have engaged in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice. Mr. Baker, who was licensed in 1988, was suspended for one year and until further order of the Court, with the suspension stayed in its entirety by a two-year period of probation with conditions. His discipline arose from his multiple acts of public intoxication and operating a vehicle while intoxicated, and his failure to notify the Indiana disciplinary authority of one of his arrests for that conduct. Ms. Doss claimed that amount was required to satisfy her legal fees, but her client disputed her entitlement to the fee. Mr. Steckel, who was licensed in 2000, was disbarred on consent. His misconduct arose from his Michigan criminal convictions for manufacturing marijuana, maintaining a drug house, and possession of marijuana with the intent to deliver. He neglected an incarcerated client's post-conviction matter and failed to communicate with that client. A suspension until further order of the Court is an indefinite suspension which requires the suspended lawyer to petition for reinstatement after the fixed period of suspension ends. She knowingly or recklessly made a false statement impugning the integrity of a judge and made false statements to the ARDC during her sworn statement. 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