Case Title: Board of Professional Responsibility, Wyoming State Bar v. Mary Jaclyn Thompson, f/k/a Mary Jaclyn Cook, WSB# 7-5492

Citation: 2018 WY 137

Docket Number: 

State: wyoming

Court: Wyoming Supreme Court

Date: 2018-12-05T00:00:00Z

Document:
IN THE SUPREME COURT, STATE OF WYOMING 2018 WY 137 October Term, A.D. 2018 December 5, 2018 BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR, Petitioner, v. MARY JACLYN THOMPSON, f/k/a MARY JACLYN COOK, WSB# 7-5492, Respondent. D-17-0006 ORDER REINSTATING ATTORNEY TO THE PRACTICE OF LAW [¶1] This matter came before the Court upon the “Report and Recommendation for Reinstatement,” filed herein November 26, 2018, by the Board of Professional Responsibility for the Wyoming State Bar. By order entered October 25, 2017, this Court suspended Respondent from the practice of law for a period of nine months, with that period commencing August 10, 2017, the effective date of Respondent’s suspension in Colorado. See Rule 19 of the Wyoming Rules of Disciplinary Procedure (Discipline Imposed by Foreign Jurisdiction). Board of Professional Responsibility, Wyoming State Bar v. Cook, 2017 WY 128, 403 P.3d 1057 (Wyo. 2017). Respondent subsequently sought reinstatement. Now, after a careful review of the Board of Professional Responsibility’s Report and Recommendation for Reinstatement and the file, this Court finds that the Report and Recommendation should be approved, confirmed and adopted by the Court; and that the Respondent, Mary Jaclyn Cook (who is now known as Mary Jaclyn Thompson) should be reinstated to the practice of law. It is, therefore, [¶2] ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that the Board of Professional Responsibility’s Report and Recommendation for Reinstatement, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein, shall be, and the same hereby is, approved, confirmed and adopted by this Court; and it is further [¶3] ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that the Respondent be, and hereby is, reinstated to the practice of law in Wyoming, effective immediately; and it is further [¶4] ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 9(b) of the Wyoming Rules of Disciplinary Procedure, this Order Reinstating Attorney to the Practice of Law, along with the incorporated Report and Recommendation for Reinstatement, shall be published in the Wyoming Reporter and the Pacific Reporter; and it is further [¶5] ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall docket this Order Reinstating Attorney to the Practice of Law, along with the incorporated Report and Recommendation for Reinstatement, as a matter coming regularly before this Court as a public record; and it is further [¶6] ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court transmit a copy of this Order Reinstating Attorney to the Practice of Law to the members of the Board of Professional Responsibility and to the clerks of the appropriate courts of the State of Wyoming. [¶7] DATED this 5th day of December, 2018. BY THE COURT: /s/ MICHAEL K. DAVIS Chief Justice