Case Title: Office of Lawyer Regulation v. Keith H.S. Peck

Citation: 2006 WI 42

Docket Number: 2006AP000407-D

State: wisconsin

Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court

Date: 2006-05-09T00:00:00Z

Document:
2006 WI 42 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
CASE NO.: 
2006AP407-D 
 
 
COMPLETE TITLE: 
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 
Against Keith H.S. Peck, Attorney at Law: 
 
 
Office of Lawyer Regulation, 
          Complainant, 
     v. 
Keith H.S. Peck, 
          Respondent. 
 
 
 
 
DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS AGAINST PECK 
 
 
OPINION FILED: 
May 9, 2006   
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ATTORNEYS: 
 
      
 
 
2006 WI 42
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
NOTICE 
This order is subject to further 
editing and modification.  The 
final version will appear in the 
bound volume of the official 
reports.   
 
 
 
No.  2006AP407-D  
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 
Against Keith H.S. Peck, Attorney at Law: 
 
 
Office of Lawyer Regulation, 
 
          Complainant, 
 
     v. 
 
Keith H.S. Peck, 
 
          Respondent. 
 
FILED 
 
MAY 9, 2006 
 
Cornelia G. Clark 
Clerk of Supreme Court 
Madison, WI 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Court entered the following order on this date: 
 
On February 20, 2006, the Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) 
filed a disciplinary complaint against Attorney Keith H. S. Peck 
asking this court to impose reciprocal discipline identical to 
that imposed on Attorney Peck by the Hawaii Supreme Court.  That 
court issued an order dated May 26, 2005, publicly reprimanding 
Attorney Peck.  On February 21, 2006, this court issued an order 
to show cause directing Attorney Peck to show cause in writing 
by 
March 13, 
2006, 
why 
the 
imposition 
of 
the 
identical 
discipline imposed by the Hawaii Supreme Court would be 
unwarranted.  Attorney Peck failed to respond to the order to 
show cause. 
 
Attorney Peck was admitted to practice law in Wisconsin in 
1996 and he became licensed to practice law in Hawaii in 1997.   
 
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The public reprimand in Hawaii resulted from his violation 
of Hawaii Rules of Professional Conduct (HRPC) as follows:  (1) 
in the course of representing a client, knowingly making a false 
statement of material fact or law to a third person, in 
violation of HRPC 4.1(a); (2) engaging in conduct involving 
dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation, in violation of 
HRPC 8.4(c); (3) in the course of representing a client, using 
means that have no substantial purpose other than to embarrass, 
delay, or burden a third person, in violation of HRPC 4.4; and 
(4) violating the rules of professional conduct, in violation of 
HRPC 8.4(a).   
 
SCR 22.22(3) provides that this court shall impose the 
identical discipline or license suspension unless the procedure 
in the 
other 
jurisdiction 
was so 
lacking 
in 
notice or 
opportunity to be heard as to constitute a due process 
violation; there was such an infirmity of proof establishing the 
misconduct that this court should not accept as final the 
misconduct finding; or the misconduct justifies substantially 
different discipline here.  Neither OLR nor Attorney Peck 
contends, nor does this court find, that any of these three 
exceptions exist.  
 
Accordingly, 
 
IT 
IS 
ORDERED 
that 
Keith 
H. 
S. 
Peck 
is 
publicly 
reprimanded.   
 
 
 
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