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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In re Phil C. NUGENT.
    No. 2015-B-0219.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    March 6, 2015.
   PER CURIAM.

| Respondent was convicted of domestic abuse battery in May 2014. In addition, the Office of Disciplinary Counsel (“ODC”) commenced an investigation into allegations that respondent threatened to present criminal charges solely to obtain an advantage in a civil matter. Following the filing of formal charges, respondent and the ODC submitted a joint petition for consent discipline in which respondent admitted that his conduct violated Rules 8.4(a), 8.4(b), and 8.4(g) of the Rules of Professional Conduct. Having reviewed the petition,

IT IS ORDERED that the Petition for Consent Discipline be accepted and that Phil C. Nugent, Louisiana Bar Roll number 20038, be suspended from the practice of law for a period of one year and one day, with all but ninety days deferred, followed by a two-year period of unsupervised probation governed by the terms and conditions set forth in the Petition for Consent Discipline. The probationary period shall commence from the date respondent and the ODC execute a formal probation plan. Any failure of respondent to comply with the conditions of probation, or any misconduct during the probationary period, may be grounds for making the deferred portion of the suspension execu-tory, or imposing additional discipline, as appropriate.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that all costs and expenses in the matter are assessed against respondent in accordance with Supreme Court Rule XIX, § 10.1, with legal interest to commence thirty days from the date of finality of this court’s judgment until paid.

CRICHTON, J., dissents and assigns reasons.

CRICHTON, J.,

dissents and assigns reasons.

|¶1 respectfully dissent. The two very serious violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct at issue in this matter warrant a more substantial period of suspension than that proposed in the petition for consent discipline. I would therefore reject the consent discipline.