Case Title: Katayoun Mohammad-Zadeh v.

Citation: 

Docket Number: 1996AP002848-D

State: wisconsin

Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court

Date: 1996-12-27T00:00:00Z

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reports. 
 
 
No. 96-2848-D 
 
STATE OF WISCONSIN               :               
 
 
 
 
IN SUPREME COURT 
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 
Against KATAYOUN MOHAMMAD-ZADEH, Attorney 
at Law. 
FILED 
 
DEC 27, 1996 
AMENDED 
Marilyn L. Graves 
Clerk of Supreme Court 
Madison, WI 
 
 
 
 
Attorney 
disciplinary 
proceeding. 
 
Attorney’s 
license 
suspended. 
PER CURIAM.   We review the stipulation of the Board of 
Attorneys 
Professional 
Responsibility 
(Board) 
and 
Attorney 
Katayoun Mohammad-Zadeh in which the parties agree that a 60-day 
suspension of Attorney Mohammad-Zadeh’s license to practice law 
in Wisconsin is appropriate discipline to impose for her 
professional misconduct, the same discipline imposed for it by 
the Supreme Court of Minnesota. We accept the stipulation and 
adopt the findings of fact and conclusions of law set forth in it 
concerning Attorney Mohammad-Zadeh’s professional misconduct 
established in the Minnesota proceeding. We determine that the 
license suspension to which the parties stipulated should be 
imposed. 
 
 
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Attorney Mohammad-Zadeh was admitted to practice law in 
Wisconsin in June, 1992 and in Minnesota in December of that 
year. She elected to become an inactive member of the State Bar 
of Wisconsin in October, 1994 and continues in that membership 
status. She currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota. 
On July 3, 1996, on stipulation of Attorney Mohammad-Zadeh 
and the Minnesota attorney disciplinary authorities, the Supreme 
Court of Minnesota suspended Attorney Mohammad-Zadeh’s license to 
practice law there for 60 days as discipline for her failure to 
pursue immigration matters for two clients, misrepresenting to 
them that she had filed a petition for permanent residence and 
giving them a fabricated receipt for a filing fee purporting to 
show that the petition had been filed, when in fact she had not 
filed it. In this proceeding, the parties stipulated that the 
conduct to which Attorney Mohammad-Zadeh had stipulated in the 
Minnesota proceeding constitutes a failure to diligently pursue 
the 
clients’ 
matter, 
in 
violation 
of 
SCR 
20:1.3,
1 
her 
misrepresentations concerning the status of the matter violated 
SCR 20:4.1(a),
2 and her alteration of a document to misrepresent 
                                                          
 
1 SCR 20:1.3 provides: Diligence 
A lawyer shall act with reasonable diligence and promptness 
in representing a client. 
2 SCR 20:4.1 provides, in pertinent part: Truthfulness in 
statements to others 
In the course of representing a client a lawyer shall not 
knowingly: 
 
(a) make a false statement of a material fact or law to a 
third person;  
 
 
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to her clients that she had taken action in their matter violated 
SCR 20:8.4(c).
3 
The Supreme Court of Minnesota accepted the parties’ 
stipulation to a 60-day license suspension as discipline for that 
misconduct, and we find no cause to conclude that the misconduct 
warrants substantially different discipline here. Accordingly, we 
accept the parties’ stipulation to the disciplinary sanction to 
be imposed. 
IT IS ORDERED that the license of Katayoun Mohammad-Zadeh to 
practice law in Wisconsin is suspended for a period of 60 days, 
effective the date of this order. 
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Katayoun Mohammad-Zadeh comply 
with the provisions of SCR 22.26 concerning the duties of a 
person whose license to practice law in Wisconsin has been 
suspended. 
                                                          
 
3 SCR 20:8.4 provides, in pertinent part: Misconduct 
It is professional misconduct for a lawyer to: 
. . . 
(c) engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or 
misrepresentation; 
 
 
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Case No.: 
96-2848-D 
 
 
Complete Title 
of Case: 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary 
Proceedings Against 
Katayoun Mohammad-Zadeh, 
Attorney at Law. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS AGAINS MOHAMMAD-ZADEH 
 
 
Opinion Filed: 
December 27, 1996 
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