The suspension is effective on October 14, 2021. She was the subject of a misdemeanor charge of attempt forgery. ILLINOIS - The Illinois Supreme Court's Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission has announced the suspension of two central Illinois attorneys. Ms. Kooi was licensed in Indiana in 2009 and in Illinois in 2010. 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. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended him for 60 days, followed by a term of probation subject to the conditions imposed by Arizona and continuing until he successfully completes the conditions imposed in Arizona. The Supreme Court of Missouri disbarred him for dishonestly failing to pay fees owed to a deceased attorney's trust after Mr. Raines took over representation in a number of cases on which the deceased attorney had worked prior to his death. She made false statements to a federal judge about her authority to settle a case, then made additional false statements to her supervisors about the cases status. Additionally, he was criminally charged and pled guilty to providing alcohol to a minor. 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 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. His misconduct arose from his August 2021 convictions of four counts of bankruptcy fraud and three counts of concealment of assets, for which he was sentenced to two years in prison. The suspension is effective Oct.14. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended her for one year and until she is reinstated to the practice of law in Missouri. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended her 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 she successfully completes her Missouri probation. Mr. Bracamonte was licensed in Illinois in 1979 and in Arizona in 1988. He also provided a false itemization of some of his time to the bankruptcy trustee, who was seeking information to substantiate Mr. Burr's fees on the matter. Mr. McCulloh, who licensed in 1983, was suspended from the practice of law for one year, with the suspension stayed after 60 days in favor of a one-year period of probation. January 17, 2023 3:31pm. Ill. S. Ct. R. 774(a)(1). The Illinois Supreme Court imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended her for 90 days, with the suspension stayed after 30 days by a two-year period of probation, retroactive to Nov. 23, 2020, subject to the conditions imposed in Indiana, and continuing until her probation in Indiana is terminated. Mr. Willey was licensed in Illinois in 2008 and in Iowa in 1993. A lawyer suspended for more than six months or a disbarred lawyer shall be reinstated or readmitted only upon order of the court. Debarment is the permanent suspension of a vendor from doing business with the OAG. Additionally, he used $13,313 of that $43,601 for his own purposes without his client's authority. Ms. Durbin was licensed in Missouri in 1986 and in Illinois in 1987. He commenced and conducted an inappropriate sexual relationship with a client after the formation of their client-lawyer relationship and engaged in dishonest conduct when he prepared a letter to the woman's prospective landlord falsely identifying her as an employee of his law firm and providing false information about her purported salary and work history. 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. Babcock, who was licensed in 1992, was disbarred on consent. Mr. Emerald, who was licensed in 1999, was suspended for one year and until he makes restitution to a client. Mr. Sherman was licensed in Illinois in 1967 and in Florida in 1975. In her written response to her opposing counsels subsequent notice of irregular documents, she falsely stated that the notary public had notarized the motions. The suspension is effective on February 7, 2023. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and imposed a reprimand and a 60-day suspension. Mr. Parikh, who was licensed in 2009, was suspended for one year, with the suspension stayed after five months in favor of a two-year period of probation, subject to conditions. Ms. Azimi, who was licensed in 2015, was suspended for 90 days. attorney Bruce Alan Carr filed exceptions to . No client lost money due to Mr. Kelly's misconduct. 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. The changes reduce the cost of returning to the master roll for retired status attorneys and attorneys whose ARDC registration has lapsed. She also did not communicate with clients about the status of their matters, inform her clients that she was closing her law practice, timely refund advanced fees that she had not earned, or safekeep client funds. Mr. Roth, who was licensed in 1979, was disbarred on consent. The suspension is effective on December 14, 2022. He also made false statements to his supervisors regarding his involvement in the matter and his telephone conversation with the judge. Reinstatement is not automatic and must be allowed by the Supreme Court of Illinois following a hearing before the ARDC Hearing Board. The suspension is effective on November 1, 2022. Mr. Szymanski, who was licensed in 2013, was suspended from the practice of law for two years and until further order of the Court. The Supreme Court of Missouri indefinitely suspended him, with the suspension stayed by probation for two years, for depositing client funds into his firms operating account, commingling his own funds with other funds in his firms trust account, and preparing a release requiring a client to withdraw her grievance to an attorney disciplinary agency in exchange for settlement funds. The Presiding Disciplinary Judge of the Supreme Court of Colorado suspended her for one year and one day, with the suspension stayed after six months by two years of probation, subject to certain conditions, for mishandling client funds, failing to communicate with clients, and failing to supervise a person working in her law firm. Mr. Leone was licensed to practice in Illinois in 1981 and in Florida in 1985. The suspension is effective on February 11, 2021. The suspension is effective on April 15, 2022. Mr. Raines was licensed in Missouri in 1989 and in Illinois in 1997. Ms. Kowalski, who was licensed in 2007, was suspended on an interim basis and until further order of the Court. Mr. Mr. Lewin also sought to represent that defendant even though the representation would be directly adverse to, and materially limited by, his responsibilities to another client in a related case. He mishandled over $70,000 in real estate escrow and earnest money funds by intentionally withdrawing funds from his firms client trust account, drawing the balance in that account below the amounts that should have been held. 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. When an investigation ensued, she falsely reported that another COPA investigator, whom she wrongly suspected of having reported her misconduct, was planning on carrying out a mass shooting at the COPA office. The ARDC summaries contain the name of each disciplined lawyer, the community in which that lawyer last practiced, a brief summary of the misconduct and the disciplinary sanction ordered by the Court. The Chair of the Attorney Discipline Probable Cause Committee of the Supreme Court of Arizona admonished her and placed her on a two-year period of conditional probation. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended him for two years and until he is reinstated to the practice of law in Connecticut. The suspension is effective on October 12, 2022. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and disbarred him. He delayed in filing a probate case and misled his client about the case's status. Mr. Wittig was licensed in Illinois in 1992 and in Arizona in 1997. Mr. Fieweger was licensed in Illinois in 1987 and in Iowa in 1989. The suspension is effective on April 15, 2022. The suspension is effective on October 14, 2021. The suspension is effective on June 9, 2022. 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. She used the funds to satisfy her delinquent mortgage. Mr. Semrad, who was licensed in 1994, was suspended for 90 days and until further order of the Court. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline, reprimanded him, and suspended him for 120 days. The Supreme Court of Iowa reprimanded him for neglecting a client matter and failing to comply with Iowa disciplinary authorities' requests for information about his conduct. In 2018, Mr. Loprieno fabricated documents that purported to show that another attorney had prepared documents that would have changed the terms of Mr. Loprieno's grandmother's estate plan, then falsely denied creating those documents in his initial response to the ARDC's request for information. 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. Easley failed act with reasonable diligence to complete an elderly client's estate planning matter and did not reasonably communicate with the client. Between March and May 2018, Mr. Rueda converted over $15,000 in four client matters due in part to his failure to keep appropriate trust account records. 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 . Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois. 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 . His misconduct arose from his felony convictions in Florida for theft of sales tax. Sheldon Lee Banks, Deerfield She pled guilty to misdemeanor harassment for pointing a semi-automatic pistol at a group of protesting individuals outside of her home, with the purpose of causing emotional distress. Mr. Duebbert, a former circuit court judge in St. Clair County who was licensed in 1990, was suspended for one year and until further order of the Court. The suspension is effective on February 7, 2023. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and disbarred him. Ms. VanAusdall, who was licensed to practice in 2003, was suspended for one year. Johnson, Matter Number: 2022PR00007, In re Jessica Rose Allen, Matter Number: 2021PR00055, In re Roni S. 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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. The case 's status Leone was licensed in Indiana in 2009 and in Arizona in 1997,. 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