Mr. Palladinetti, who was licensed in 1985, was disbarred. 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 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. Mr. Weber, who was licensed in 1984, was disbarred. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and disbarred him. She also failed to cooperate with the ARDC's investigation of her conduct. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended him for 90 days. He also forged the client's ex-spouse's signature on a document, although he did not file it with the court. The suspension is effective on February 10, 2022. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and disbarred him. Ms. Sodaro was licensed in Illinois in 1986 and in Arizona in 2017. 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. 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 failed to pursue a client's personal injury case, allowing the statute of limitations to expire. Mr. Cunningham, who was licensed in 1994, was suspended for six months. A referee appointed by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin publicly reprimanded him for possessing a firearm silencer in violation of Wisconsin Statutes. 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 Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts disbarred him for intentionally converting over $42,000 that he was supposed to be holding in connection with an insurance dispute. Mr. Bowe was licensed in Illinois in 1982 and in New Jersey in 1984. The suspension is effective Oct.14. Mr. Szymanski later pled guilty to misdemeanor battery in connection with that incident. He was found guilty of bank fraud after he participated in a multi-year scheme that provided fraudulent information to lenders in order to qualify buyers for mortgage loans to purchase condominium units owned by other participants in the scheme. In July 2017, the Superior Court for the Judicial District of Middlesex, Connecticut, suspended him until 1) he successfully completed a two-year period of probation in a criminal matter for operating a motor vehicle under the influence of liquor or drugs, and 2) he is reinstated to the practice of law in Connecticut, where was administratively suspended for failure to pay a mandatory Client Security Fund fee. Posted April 1, 2022 12:54 PM. 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. While serving as a court-appointed public defender for a client, he made sexually explicit comments to the client, touched the client without her consent, and masturbated in front of the client in his office during a meeting about her case. 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. 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 December 7, 2021. To verify that a particular lawyer is the respondent named in a proceeding, please call the Clerk's Office of the ARDC at (312) 565-2600 or within Illinois at (800) 826-8625. 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 suspension is effective on October 14, 2021. Additionally, he was criminally charged and pled guilty to providing alcohol to a minor. Jun 29, 2012. He abandoned his law practice and did not communicate with clients for an extended period. Mr. Jankura, who was licensed in 1987, was suspended for 90 days. Mr. Easley failed act with reasonable diligence to complete an elderly client's estate planning matter and did not reasonably communicate with the client. Ms. Durbin was licensed in Missouri in 1986 and in Illinois in 1987. The website for the ARDC can be found at www.iardc.org . If you have been removed from the master roll for failure to register with the ARDC, you can be reinstated by registering and paying the required registration fee and reinstatement fee. During a dissolution of marriage case, she came to an agreement with opposing counsel concerning parenting time, prepared a proposed order memorializing the agreement, and obtained opposing counsel's permission to submit the order to the trial judge for entry. Mr. Pondenis, who was licensed in 2006, was suspended for one year and until further order of the Court. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and disbarred him. Mr. DeGrave, who was licensed in 2015, was suspended for one year and until further order the Court for striking his then-wife in the face during an argument, which led to injuries requiring surgery. The suspension is effective on October 14, 2021. Mr. McWard, who was licensed in 2017, was suspended for 90 days. In a 2018 matter, he was admonished and placed on probation for two years for failing to notify a third party of his receipt of funds in which the third party had an interest and failing to distribute funds. 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. 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. The suspension is effective on October 12, 2022. 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. He neglected two client matters and failed to communicate with those clients, and he concealed from a bankruptcy court his client's payment of attorney's fees to him. In 2019, she was convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol and other offenses after she drove into a police patrol car. 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. Hynes, who was licensed in 2016, was suspended for one year and until further order of the Court, with the suspension stayed after 90 days in favor of a three-year period of probation. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended him until he is reinstated to the practice of law in Florida. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and disbarred him. Reinstatement is not automatic and must be allowed by the Supreme Court of Illinois following a hearing before the ARDC Hearing Board. Many of those messages were vulgar, profane, abusive, included anti-Semitic remarks, and served no purpose other than to harass or burden their recipients. Ms. Calloway, who was licensed in 1994, was suspended for one year and until further order of the Court. an attorney who used at least $136,000 of his employer's funds without consent should be suspended for three years and until further order of the court, according to the illinois attorney registration and disciplinary committee hearing board.the administrator charged tradd ashton fromme with engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit 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. The suspension is effective on October 12, 2022. The suspension is effective on October 12, 2022. He made false statements in federal court pleadings and in communications with opposing counsel and court personnel alleging a fictitious illness as his reason for seeking extensions of time in matters. Ms. Jones, who was licensed in 2014, was suspended for nine months. Mr. Gordon, who was licensed in 2010, was suspended for one year and until further order of the Court, stayed after six months by a six-month period of conditional probation. Mr. Flangel, who was licensed in 1992, was disbarred on consent. The suspension is effective on December 7, 2021. While representing a recently-widowed woman in matters relating to the administration of her deceased husbands estate, he collected an unreasonable fee of $20,000 for preparing new estate-planning documents for the woman and her adult daughter and for incorporating a business for the daughter, and he sought an additional $25,729.75 in fees that the client did not pay. Sheets, who was licensed in 1990, was suspended for thirty days for engaging in the unauthorized practice of law. Those charges were later dismissed. Mr. Gomez, who was licensed in 1988, was suspended for three years and until further order of the Court. Mr. Ahn, who was licensed in 1991, was suspended for one year and until further order of the Court. The opinions, announcements, and orders by the Supreme Court may be reviewed under the Recent Decisions tab or at the Supreme Court of Illinois website: www.illinoiscourts.gov. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and censured him. The suspension is effective on October 14, 2021. The Illinois Courts Commission initiated a disciplinary matter against then-Judge Araujo based on this same misconduct and entered an oral ruling finding that he had committed the misconduct. 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