Case Title: Office of Lawyer Regulation v. Anthony Irby Moree

Citation: 2004 WI 118

Docket Number: 2004AP001284-D

State: wisconsin

Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court

Date: 2004-08-02T00:00:00Z

Document:
2004 WI 118 
 
 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
CASE NO.: 
04-1284-D 
 
 
COMPLETE TITLE: 
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 
Against Anthony Irby Moree, Attorney at Law: 
 
Office of Lawyer Regulation,  
          Complainant, 
     v. 
Anthony Irby Moree,  
          Respondent. 
 
 
 
 
DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS AGAINST MOREE 
 
 
OPINION FILED: 
August 2, 2004   
SUBMITTED ON BRIEFS: 
        
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SOURCE OF APPEAL: 
 
 
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JUSTICES: 
 
 
CONCURRED: 
        
 
DISSENTED: 
BRADLEY, J., dissents.   
 
NOT PARTICIPATING:         
 
 
 
ATTORNEYS: 
 
      
 
 
2004 WI 118 
 
 
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.  04-1284-D 
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 
Against Anthony Irby Moree, Attorney at Law: 
 
Office of Lawyer Regulation,  
 
          Complainant, 
 
     v. 
 
Anthony Irby Moree,  
 
          Respondent. 
 
FILED 
 
AUG 2, 2004 
 
Cornelia G. Clark 
Clerk of Supreme Court 
Madison, WI 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Court entered the following order on this date: 
 
The Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) and Attorney Anthony 
Irby Moree has stipulated, pursuant to SCR 22.12, for reciprocal 
discipline under SCR 22.22.   
 
Attorney Moree was admitted to the practice of law in 
Wisconsin in 1982.  His Wisconsin law license was suspended in 
1992 for failure to pay annual bar dues.  His license remains 
suspended.   
 
Attorney Moree was admitted to practice law in Illinois in 
1985.  Pursuant to a January 20, 2004 order of the Illinois 
Supreme Court, Attorney Moree’s Illinois license to practice law 
was suspended for misconduct consisting of  (a) conversion; (b) 
entering into an agreement with a client or former client 
limiting or purporting to limit the right of the client or 
former client to file or pursue any complaint before the 
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Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, in violation 
of Rule 1.8(h) of the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct; 
(c) failure to deposit funds of a third person in a separate and 
identifiable trust account, in violation of Rule 1.15(a) of the 
Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct; (d) failure to promptly 
pay or deliver to a client or third person funds that the client 
or third person was entitled to receive, in violation of Rule 
1.15(b) of the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct; (e) 
conduct 
involving 
dishonesty, 
fraud, 
deceit 
or 
misrepresentation, in violation of Rule 8.4(a)(4) of the 
Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct; (f) conduct that is 
prejudicial to the administration of justice, in violation of 
Rule 8.l4(a)(5) of the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct; 
and (g) conduct which tends to defeat the administration of 
justice or to bring the courts or the legal profession into 
disrepute, in violation of Illinois Supreme Court Rule 771.   
 
The Illinois Supreme Court suspended Attorney Moree’s 
Illinois law license for 18 months, with all but the first three 
months of suspension stayed by a two-year period of probation, 
subject to conditions.   
 
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 could not accept as final the 
misconduct findings; or the misconduct justifies substantially 
different discipline here.  Neither the OLR nor Attorney Moree 
contend, nor does this court find, that any of these three 
exceptions exist.  The OLR and Attorney Moree note that the 
discipline imposed by the Illinois Supreme Court includes 
elements 
not 
generally 
imposed 
in 
Wisconsin 
disciplinary 
proceedings, including the stay of all but three months of the 
imposed suspension and placing Attorney Moree on probation.  The 
OLR and Attorney Moree request and stipulate that as reciprocal 
discipline this court impose a three-month suspension of 
Attorney Moree’s license to practice law in Wisconsin and order 
him to comply with the terms and conditions established by the 
Illinois Supreme Court.  We conclude that this proposal does 
effectuate “identical discipline” under the terms of SCR 
22.22(3) because it replicates the practical effect of the 
Illinois Supreme Court’s disciplinary order which is to bar 
Attorney Moree from the practice of law for three months as long 
as he complies with the requirements of probation. 
 
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IT IS ORDERED that the license of Attorney Anthony Irby 
Moree to practice law in Wisconsin is suspended for three 
months, effective the date of this order, and until the further 
order of this court; 
 
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Attorney Moree shall comply with 
the terms and conditions of probation set forth in the Illinois 
Supreme Court’s order of January 20, 2004.   
 
Bradley, J., dissents. 
 
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