Title: BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR v. KEN M. MCLAUGHLIN

State: wyoming

Issuer: Wyoming Supreme Court

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BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR v. KEN M. MCLAUGHLIN2006 WY 67136 P.3d 158Case Number: D-05-3Decided: 05/31/2006
April Term, A.D. 2006

 
 
BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, 
WYOMING STATE BAR, Petitioner,

 
 

v.

 
 
KEN M. 
McLAUGHLIN, Respondent.

 
 

 

This matter came before the Court upon a "Report and 
Recommendation to the Wyoming Supreme Court," filed herein May 16, 2006, by 
the Board of Professional Responsibility for the Wyoming State Bar.  After a careful review of the Board of 
Professional Responsibility's Report and Recommendation, the materials attached 
thereto, the Respondent's Section 16 Affidavit, the Affidavit of Costs and 
Expenses, and the remainder of the file, this Court finds that the Report and 
Recommendation should be approved, confirmed and adopted by the Court; and that 
the Respondent, Ken M. McLaughlin, should be suspended form the practice of law 
for a period of one year, retroactive to September 21, 2005.  It is, 
therefore,

 
 

ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that the Board of Professional Responsibility's 
Report and Recommendation to the Wyoming Supreme Court, 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

 
 

ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that, as a result of the conduct set forth in the 
Report and Recommendation, Respondent Ken M. McLaughlin shall be, and hereby is, 
suspended from the practice of law for a period of one year, with that period of 
suspension beginning on September 21, 2005; and it is further 

 
 

ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 26 of the Disciplinary Code 
for the Wyoming State Bar, Ken M. McLaughlin shall reimburse the Wyoming State 
Bar the amount of $101.13, representing the costs incurred in handling this 
matter, as well as pay an administrative fee of $1,000.00, by paying the amount 
of $1,101.13 to the Clerk of the Board of Professional Responsibility, on or 
before September 1, 2006; and it is further

 
 

ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 4(c) of the Disciplinary Code 
for the Wyoming State Bar, this Order Suspending Attorney from the Practice of 
Law, along with the incorporated Report and Recommendation, shall be published 
in the Wyoming Reporter and the Pacific Reporter; and it is 
further

 
 

ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall docket this Order 
Suspending Attorney from the Practice of Law, along with the Report and 
Recommendation, as a matter coming regularly before this Court as a public 
record; and it is further

 
 

ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court 
transmit a copy of this Order Suspending Attorney from the Practice of Law to 
the members of the Board of Professional Responsibility, and the clerks of the 
appropriate courts of the State ofWyoming.

 
 

DATED this 30th day of May, 
2006.

 
 

                                                                        
BY THE COURT:

                                                                        
/s/ William U. Hill

                                                                        
WILLIAM U. HILL

                                                                        
Chief Justice