Case Title: Attorney Grievance v. Sutherland

Citation: 

Docket Number: 27ag/13

State: maryland

Court: Maryland Supreme Court

Date: 2013-10-09T00:00:00Z

Document:
Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland v. John Arthur Sutherland, Jr.
[Misc. Docket AG, No. 27, September Term, 2013]
John Arthur Sutherland, Jr. has been suspended by Order of Court dated October 9, 2013.
  
John Arthur Sutherland, Jr. been suspended, effective immediately, from the further
practice of law in the State, and his name as an attorney at law will be been stricken from the
register of attorneys in this Court (Maryland Rule 16-760(e)).
 

 

ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE COMMISSION + INTHE
(OF MARYLAND. .
+ COURT OF APPEALS
Petitioner .
* OF MARYLAND
v. + Mise. Docket AG
JOHN ARTHUR SUTHERLAND, JR. * No. 27
Respondent + September Term, 2013

 

 

‘This matter, having come before the Court upon the filing of a Petition for Disciplinary or
Remedial Action and request for interim suspension pursuant to Maryland Rulle 16-773(@), with
attached certified copy of the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board's Order of Revocation
entered February 15, 2012, whereby the license of John Arthur Sutherland, J. is also a member

of the Bar ofthis Court (although not currently in good standi

 

NOW, THEREFORE, its thi ® day of Ostber, 2013,

 

 

ORDERED, by the Court of Appeals of Maryland, pursuant to Maryland Rule 16-773(4),
that John Arthur Sutherland, Jr, Respondent, be, and he is hereby suspended, effective

immediately, from the further pract

 

‘of law in this State, pending further order of this Court;
and itis further

ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall strike the name of John Arthur Sutherland,
J, from the register of attomeys in this Court and shall certify that fact to the Trustees ofthe
Client Protection Fund of the Bar of Maryland and the Clerks of all cours in this State in
‘accordance with Maryland Rule 16-760(e),

Js! Mary Ellen Barbera
Chief Judge