Title: Office of Lawyer Regulation v. Bruce Nash

State: wisconsin

Issuer: Wisconsin Supreme Court

Document:

2006 WI 116 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
CASE NO.: 
2006AP1944-D 
 
 
COMPLETE TITLE: 
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings  
Against Bruce Nash, Attorney at Law: 
 
 
Office of Lawyer Regulation, 
          Complainant, 
     v. 
Bruce Nash, 
          Respondent. 
 
 
 
 
DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS AGAINST NASH 
 
 
OPINION FILED: 
October 10, 2006   
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2006 WI 116
 
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.  2006AP1944-D  
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings  
Against Bruce Nash, Attorney at Law: 
 
 
Office of Lawyer Regulation, 
 
          Complainant, 
 
     v. 
 
Bruce Nash, 
 
          Respondent. 
 
FILED 
 
OCT 10, 2006 
 
Cornelia G. Clark 
Clerk of Supreme Court 
Madison, WI 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Court entered the following order on this date: 
 
On August 11, 2006, the Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) 
filed a disciplinary complaint against Attorney Bruce Nash 
asking this court to impose reciprocal discipline identical to 
that imposed on Attorney Nash by the Illinois Supreme Court.  
That court suspended Attorney Nash's Illinois law license for a 
period of one year, effective December 13, 2005.  On August 14, 
2006, this court issued an order to show cause directing 
Attorney Nash to show cause in writing by September 5, 2006 why 
the imposition of the identical discipline imposed by the 
Illinois Supreme Court would be unwarranted.  Attorney Nash 
failed to respond to the order to show cause. 
 
Attorney Nash's license to practice law in Wisconsin is 
currently under suspension.   
 
No.  2006AP1944-D 
 
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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 Nash 
contends, nor does this court find, that any of these three 
exceptions exist.  
 
Accordingly, 
 
IT IS ORDERED that the license of Bruce Nash to practice 
law in the State of Wisconsin is suspended for a period of one 
year, effective the date of this order and until further order 
of the court; 
 
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this suspension does not affect 
the existing suspensions which will also have to be satisfied in 
order for Attorney Nash's license to practice law in Wisconsin 
to be reinstated; 
 
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Attorney Nash shall comply, if 
he has not already done so, with the requirements of SCR 22.26 
pertaining to activities following suspension. 
 
 
 
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